WALKER COUNTY, Ga. — Sheriff’s officials are investigating the death of an 11-month-old boy left in a hot SUV Sunday.
According to Walker County sheriff’s officials, the child’s grandparents returned from church at about 3 p.m.
They, along with another adult and a child, got out of the SUV at the home, in the 900 block of Kensington Road in Chickamauga. The child was left behind.
Two hours later, the boy’s mother woke up and asked where her son was, according to sheriff’s officials.
The mother, who is a nurse and works overnight, went to the car and found the child in the backseat.
She started performing CPR when she found him, at about 5:20 p.m., according to authorities.
Authorities arrived on scene after she called 911 and continued performing CPR.
The child was taken to Hutcheson Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead.
Walker County Sheriff Steve Wilson said temperatures reached between 88 and 90 Sunday during that time, with 48 percent humidity.
Temperature in a closed vehicle can reach temperatures as high as 131 to 172 in as little as 15 minutes.
The child’s death is being investigated by the sheriff’s official and the Lookout Mountain Judicial Circuit’s child fatality review team, authorities said.
His body was taken to a Georgia Bureau of Investigation crime lab for an autopsy.
WSBTV
