Texas boy, 5, dies in hot car while family was busy preparing older sister’s birthday party

2 years ago

Harris County news, Texas news.

A Texas boy was found dead inside his family’s vehicle Monday after spending three hours there in scorching temperatures that reached 100 degrees, the Harris County Sheriff’s Office said.

The mother of the 5-year-old told detectives that she had arrived home with both her children in the backseat of the vehicle and assumed the boy unbuckled himself and hopped out as his sister did.

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    The woman found her son still strapped into his seat in the back of the car. EMS pronounced him dead at the scene.

    Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez said that the boy knew how to unbuckle himself but that the vehicle he died in was a loaner car, according to the family.