A three-year-old boy died after being left in a hot car for nearly three hours in Columbus, 佐治亚州, 星期日, according to a county coroner’s office.
男孩, 肯德里克·英格拉姆, 小, had arrived home with his grandmother and several other children at approximately 5:30 下午, following an afternoon of them attending church and running errands, according to information obtained by the Muscogee County Coroner’s Office as part of its report on the child’s death.
The grandmother told investigators she believed all the children got out of her SUV when they made it home, the coroner’s report stated, and she then went to her bedroom. Kendrick’s mother was at work at the time and had met with the group at a nearby Walmart earlier during her lunch break, 报告说.
Nearly three hours later at around 8:15 下午, Kendrick’s uncle used the SUV to drive to a Wendy’s restaurant and was unaware the boy was in the back seat, 根据报告. He parked the vehicle and went inside, where he later received a phone call from Kendrick’s grandmother asking if he had seen him.
The uncle found Kendrick in the car with “foam and blood coming from his mouth” and called for emergency medical assistance, which arrived two minutes after the call, 报告说.
Kendrick was described as “extremely hot to the touch” at the scene, 报告说, and showed no signs of life.
The preliminary cause of death is asphyxiation, Muscogee County Coroner Buddy Bryan told CNN. Temperatures in the Columbus area Sunday reached as high as 96 华氏度, 根据 国家气象局.
Due to the circumstances of the child’s death, the coroner’s office said his body would be sent to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation to have an autopsy performed. The results of the autopsy may take up to four to five months to complete, Bryan said.
CNN has reached out to the Columbus Police Department for further information.
This is the sixth heat-related death of a child in a car this year, 根据 National Safety Council.
On average, 38 以下年龄段的儿童 15 die from heatstroke each year after being left in a car, according to the council.
Last week in Texas, a 5-year-old boy died after he was left inside a car outside the family’s Houston home, CNN reported.
And in Virginia Tuesday, an 18-month-old boy died after he was left in an unattended vehicle for several hours, Chesterfield County police said.
Police did not specify the cause of death for the toddler, but the high temperature in Midlothian, 这是关于 20 miles west of Richmond, was around 81 degrees Fahrenheit that day.
