Child, 2, dies after being left
unattended in car in Lawrence
After receiving a
report that a 2-year-old child had been left unattended in a parked car,
Lawrence police said they went to the scene Sunday and found the child had
died.
Police weren’t releasing the child’s name or gender, or
information about the cause and manner of death.
Police Sgt. Amy
Rhoads said officers responded at 5:37 p.m. on a call to the 3300 block of
Iowa, where the child was found.
“Investigators have contacted the
family and are actively investigating this incident,” Rhoads said.
The death came on a day when National Weather Service reported Lawrence had
a temperature about 5 p.m. of 88 degrees, with a heat index of 96.
The weather service issued a heat advisory running from 1 to 8 p.m. Monday
for an area that included Lawrence, Topeka, Emporia, Ottawa and Burlington.
It warned that high temperatures in that area are expected to reach the
middle 90s while the heat index is anticipated to rise to between 105 and
110.