BUTLER TWP — Butler County prosecutors said today that they plan to file at least one homicide charge against a 20-year-old man who is wanted in connection with the death of a 4-year-old Butler boy on Tuesday.

Butler County District Attorney Richard Goldinger said this morning that his office plans to file at least one count of general homicide against Keith Jordan Lambing. Goldinger said the court filings for that charge had not yet been prepared as of 9 a.m. today.

The decision to charge Lambing comes after Bentley Thomas Miller died Tuesday from what Goldinger said was fatal bleeding.

Police have said that Bentley was being driven from a motel in Butler Township either to the hospital or his father's house in the area of Ridge Avenue in the city by Lambing's mother on Tuesday when he became unresponsive in the vehicle. The woman pulled over into the Pullman Square parking lot of Armco Credit Union at about 9:30 a.m. and called for help,

Capt. Jim Kaufman of the Butler Fire Department said when he got there Tuesday, Butler Patrolman Cheryl Litz was performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation on the child, who was not breathing. Butler Ambulance Service arrived and assisted police and firefighters.

The woman told authorities that she had picked up the boy at the Super 8 motel on Route 8 south in Butler Township where, according to the motel's manager, the boy had been staying with his mother, Lambing, and a baby. The manager said the group had been at the motel for a couple of days.

Kaufman described the scene as frantic but said emergency crews “remained professional the whole time and did their jobs.”

Kaufman ended up driving the ambulance to Butler Memorial Hospital while paramedics and Litz tended to the boy in the back of the vehicle.

Kaufman called the outcome “very tragic” when he learned the boy was pronounced dead at the hospital.

The circumstances of Bentley's death remained largely unclear today.

Although city police got the original call, Butler Township police are investigating the case.

Township police Lt. Matthew Pearson said Tuesday that the department had called on forensic investigators from the state police to help process several sites, including the motel. Goldinger declined to go into specifics regarding the findings of an autopsy completed Tuesday afternoon.

Butler County Coroner William Young III said the boy suffered obvious abuse and had a scalding-type burn on one of his hands, as well as bruises on his body, but also declined to speak specifically about Bentley's condition.

“It's a bad, bad thing,” Young said. “It's a bad situation.”

Goldinger said police continue to search for Lambing, whom police have said could be in the Butler City or Saxonburg areas. According to court documents Lambing most recently lived in the North Hills, but has also lived in Butler and Slippery Rock.

Lambing has a criminal record that includes misdemeanor convictions in Butler County for fleeing or attempting to elude police, possessing an instrument of crime and disorderly conduct.

Butler police most recently arrested him March 8 on charges he and another man broke into an apartment in the 200 block of Walker Avenue.

Both suspects also warned the tenant that if they went to jail, “they could have someone return to finish what they started,” court documents said.

Lambing was arraigned on charges of burglary, trespass, conspiracy and terroristic threats.

He was placed in the Butler County Prison following his arrest but was released that same day after posting $30,000 bail.

He failed to appear Monday for his preliminary hearing in the case, authorities said, and was ordered held for trial in absentia.

Goldinger advised people to be cautious if they see Lambing, whom police have described as white and about 5 feet 10 inches or 6 feet tall and weighing about 150 pounds. He was last seen wearing blue jeans and black boots.

“Knowing the circumstances of what happened here, I would consider him dangerous,” Goldinger said. “There was some speculation that he did have (access to) firearms, so I would advise the police and the public to be very cautious around him.”

According to a family source Bentley is the son of Tyler Miller and McKenzie Peters.