Baby dies in Clewiston after being left in car
Tuesday, a baby died in Clewiston after
being left in a car for an unknown amount of time, according to
the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.
We spoke to
neighbors Thursday who were near the scene while first
responders were presumably heading to the location of the baby.
Senada Gonzalez heard the sirens during the emergency
response. She didn’t know what the emergency was for, but she
took pictures anyway.
“I was outside, and I heard the
ambulance, police and people riding by,” Gonzalez said.
Two days later, she fears police and first responders were
racing to where the baby might have died.
Gonzalez and
others say Clewiston police blocked off the main road of WC Owen
Avenue for hours.
“It’s sad. I’m not too sure about what
happened,” Gonzalez said “But, to hear that it was an infant,
it’s sad.”
“I think the ambulance and cops left around
one o’clock in the morning,” Juanita Hernandez said. “It was all
night long.”
At the request of Clewiston Police
Department, FDLE is investigating the incident.
Juanita
Hernandez said she’s been holding on tighter to her
grandchildren since she learned the about the baby’s death.
“I went over there to see my sister, and my sister lives
right next to her,” Hernandez said. “And I asked my sister
what’s going on, and she said, ‘I don’t know. They said there’s
a baby dead,” Hernandez said. “How can you forget somebody like
that?”
“Any time there’s a loss of a child, it’s just a very tragic event no
matter if it’s by natural means or by accident or by some other means,” he
said.