7-month-old dead after left in hot car outside NW Houston business
A 7-month-old was found dead Friday night inwards a car in front of a northwest Houston business, according to authorities.
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A 7-month-old boy was found dead inwards a car Friday night after evidently being left by his father when he went to work at a northwest Houston business, according to police.
The baby boy was found by Houston firefighters around nine p.m. outside a warehouse business in the seven thousand nine hundred block of Northcourt Road, authorities said. The boy evidently died from the fever.
Houston police are investigating the incident, and the case will likely be referred to a Harris County grand jury.
The baby’s father, 36, dropped off two of his three children at a daycare Friday morning and then arrived at his workplace on Northcourt Road around 9:30 a.m, according to police.
The baby usually gets dropped off separately to a babysitter.
Around 9:00pm HFD was called to the Warehouse Business at seven thousand nine hundred nine Northcourt for a child not breathing. When they arrived, they found a seven month old boy dead from the fever. The child had been left alone in the car.
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When his wifey called asking the whereabouts of the baby, the father went out to the vehicle around 7:30 p.m. and found the child unresponsive in the car seat.
Paramedics pronounced the baby dead, according to police.
Investigators interviewed the father, contacted the Harris County District Attorney’s Office and then released him pending further investigation.
Temperatures reached the mid 90s on Friday with relatively high humidity levels in the morning hours.
Twelve children have already died this year from heatstroke inwards a car, according to Kids and Cars, an organization that collects data on child fatalities inwards vehicles.
Last year thirty nine children died from fever stroke inwards a car, and eight hundred ten children have died from fever stroke inwards vehicles across the country since 1994, according to Kids and Cars.
A child’s bod overheats three to five times swifter than an adult assets, and a car’s temperature can reach one hundred twenty five degrees in minutes.
Eighty percent of temperature increase inwards a vehicle can happen within the very first ten minutes.
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More than fifty five percent of parents who left their child inwards a car unknowingly left them, according to Kids and Cars.
The organization advises parents to always look in the backseat of their vehicle before locking it. They should also put something in the backseat they’ll need such as their cell phone, employee ID or briefcase.
Two youthful children, a 2-year-old and a 16-month-old, were also found dead inwards a car last month in Parker County in North Texas.
The 25-year-old mother found the children playing in the car and told investigators she left the kids to instruct them a lesson, authorities reported.
The mom was charged Friday with two first-degree felony counts of injury to a child causing serious bodily injury.
7-month-old dead after left in hot car outside NW Houston business – Houston Chronicle
7-month-old dead after left in hot car outside NW Houston business
A 7-month-old was found dead Friday night inwards a car in front of a northwest Houston business, according to authorities.
Media: Metro Movie
A 7-month-old boy was found dead inwards a car Friday night after evidently being left by his father when he went to work at a northwest Houston business, according to police.
The baby boy was found by Houston firefighters around nine p.m. outside a warehouse business in the seven thousand nine hundred block of Northcourt Road, authorities said. The boy evidently died from the fever.
Houston police are investigating the incident, and the case will likely be referred to a Harris County grand jury.
Around 9:00pm HFD was called to the Warehouse Business at seven thousand nine hundred nine Northcourt for a child not breathing. When they arrived, they found a seven month old boy dead from the warmth. The child had been left alone in the car.
Media: [email protected] / chron.com
The baby’s father, 36, dropped off two of his three children at a daycare Friday morning and then arrived at his workplace on Northcourt Road around 9:30 a.m, according to police.
The baby usually gets dropped off separately to a babysitter.
When his wifey called asking the whereabouts of the baby, the father went out to the vehicle around 7:30 p.m. and found the child unresponsive in the car seat.
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Paramedics pronounced the baby dead, according to police.
Investigators interviewed the father, contacted the Harris County District Attorney’s Office and then released him pending further investigation.
Temperatures reached the mid 90s on Friday with relatively high humidity levels in the morning hours.
Twelve children have already died this year from heatstroke inwards a car, according to Kids and Cars, an organization that collects data on child fatalities inwards vehicles.
Last year thirty nine children died from fever stroke inwards a car, and eight hundred ten children have died from fever stroke inwards vehicles across the country since 1994, according to Kids and Cars.
A child’s bod overheats three to five times swifter than an adult bod, and a car’s temperature can reach one hundred twenty five degrees in minutes.
Eighty percent of temperature increase inwards a vehicle can happen within the very first ten minutes.
More than fifty five percent of parents who left their child inwards a car unknowingly left them, according to Kids and Cars.
The organization advises parents to always look in the backseat of their vehicle before locking it. They should also put something in the backseat they’ll need such as their cell phone, employee ID or briefcase.
Two youthfull children, a 2-year-old and a 16-month-old, were also found dead inwards a car last month in Parker County in North Texas.
The 25-year-old mother found the children playing in the car and told investigators she left the kids to train them a lesson, authorities reported.
The mom was charged Friday with two first-degree felony counts of injury to a child causing serious bodily injury.