Authorities in Charlotte, North Carolina have charged a mother after her 8-year-old daughter died in a hot car this week.
Ashlee Stallings, 36, called police to the parking lot of a NAPA Auto Parts on Wednesday after finding her daughter unresponsive in the car.
The woman admitted to leaving the girl in the parked vehicle for hours while she worked at a nearby Amazon distribution center.
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Investigators said the temperatures on Wednesday reached 94 degrees in Charlotte.
The victim couldn’t be revived and she was declared dead at the scene. Her mother now faces charges of involuntary manslaughter and child abuse causing serious injury.
Wednesday’s death is the fifth of an American child in a hot car this year.
