SEATTLE - Bail has been set at $1 million for the father of a 7-month-old boy who was found dead with burns all over his body in a fire pit at the family home in Federal Way.

Thirty-eight-year-old Alberto Rios is being held for investigation of manslaughter.

Deputy Prosecutor Steven Kim says he sought the high bail because Rios is an illegal alien who has been deported twice to Mexico and could be deported a third time and because the man blames himself for his son's death and might harm himself.

Rios also has a history of drug and alcohol convictions dating back to 1990.

"We have the facts and we are currently reviewing the facts and we will be making a filing decision as to whether we are going to file or not going to file charges probably in the next two days," Kim said.

The King County medical examiner's office said Wednesday that the baby was alive when it entered the fire pit, and died of smoke inhalation and suffered burns over 100 percent of his body.

The death was ruled a homicide.

A statement of probable cause by Federal Way police detectives says officers first got the call early Sunday morning that a baby had been bitten by a dog, and then a second call came in that the baby had been burned.

Officers arrived at the family home and found the father holding the lifeless child, badly burned and with a hole in its head.

Detectives say during questioning of Rios, he said he had between 3-6 beers during a party at the home that night, but was tried from working all day.

The probable cause statement then gives the following account of subsequent events: that after everyone went home, Rios went into the house and found his wife with his son, Diego. Diego was crying and his wife said she thought Diego was getting sick.

He told his wife he would take Diego outside and let him sleep with him. His 4-year-old daughter also wanted to sleep outside with him. He agreed and fell asleep with Diego on his chest and his daughter by his side.

The next thing he knew, his baby was missing and his daughter was also gone. He went looking around his home and couldn't find him. He then asked his wife where Diego was, then ran out to the fire pit and found Diego. He says he grabbed him out of the pit and scrapped cinders off his back.

The wife went running to a neighbor for help. She arrived to find Rios lying face down cradling the baby near the fire pit.