Florida Principal Leaves Granddaughter to Die in
Hot Car
A former Florida school
principal is facing charges after a second grandchild
died while in her care, police say.
According to
ABC Action News, 65-year-old Tracey Nix is facing
aggravated manslaughter charges after her 11-month-old
granddaughter, Uriel Schock (pictured left), was found
deceased in a hot vehicle on November 1, 2022. The
incident happened at Nix’s home in Wauchula when
temperatures that day reached 90s degrees.
A
Hardee County Sheriff’s Office complaint affidavit
indicated that Nix was practicing piano while Uriel
passed away inside a Lexus SUV, parked in the front yard
with its windows rolled up. When one of Nix’s grandsons
arrived, she claimed she”all of a sudden”realized the
infant was still in the vehicle.
The defendant’s
husband, Nun Ney Nix, retrieved Uriel from the vehicle
and began CPR.
Nix was babysitting Uriel on the
day in question while the baby’s mother was out getting
her hair done. Uriel’s parents, Kaila and Drew Schock,
spoke to ABC Action News I-Team following the incident.
“And that it actually just f—ing happened twice. In
our lifetime,” Drew said.
Uriel’s 1-year-old
brother, Ezra (pictured right), was in Nix’s care in
2021, three days before Christmas, when he drowned in a
nearby pond. Kaila said she rushed to Nix’s home after
Drew got a call that “something” happened to her son.
“I could see the helicopter landing,” Kaila said. “I
didn’t look. When there was a stop sign,” adding that
she was driving so fast to the scene that she got into a
head-on collision with another driver.
Kaila said
she never looked at the incident report on the boy’s
death, after investigators “withheld information from
me, per my request, per my doctor’s advice, that any
information that would work me up or make me emotionally
distressful would be harmful to my unborn child.”
“I was told unless I believed that my mom held my
son’s head under the water and intentionally killed him,
that there is nothing else that they can do about my
son’s death,” Kaila said.
Kaila was pregnant with
Uriel at the time and only knew that Nix said she fell
asleep when Ezra wandered to the pond.
The
incident report states that Nix said she was on a sofa
while her husband “was rocking” Ezra in a recliner. Mr.
Nix said the baby fell asleep on the recliner and he
left the child with his wife, who was awake on the sofa,
to go run errands.