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.