3-Month-Old Boy Dies After Being Left in Hot Car in Washington, DC

Police say that preliminarily, it appears to be a tragedy, but the investigation continues

A three-month-old baby has died in after he was left in a hot car for several hours, Washington, D.C., police say.

It happened Tuesday evening on Park Road NW. First responders found the baby had already been removed from the car by the time they arrived, but they were unable to revive him.

D.C. police say they got a call around 6 p.m. that there was a unresponsive and unconscious infant inside a rowhouse. According to police, the child’s father said he found the baby inside a car on Park Road, and that the baby had been in the car for up to two hours.

When paramedics arrived, they tried to revive the baby.

On the radio, a first responder can be heard saying, "We have a three-month-old male, cardiac arrest ... doing CPR for about eight minutes."

News4 was told the family would have no comment.

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