Oklahoma City police investigating baby’s death after child
allegedly left in hot car
OKLAHOMA CITY
(KFOR) – Oklahoma City Police are investigating the death of a
baby after the child was allegedly left in a hot car Saturday
afternoon.
Police were called to the 3700 block of SW
40th Place just before 5:00 p.m.
Officials with Oklahoma
City police tell KFOR a 17-month-old was found deceased inside a
car.
A neighbor spoke to News 4 Sunday afternoon.
“It makes me feel sick,” Loretta Bell told KFOR. “I’ve got a
two-year-old granddaughter and I cannot imagine what that lady’s
going through.”
“The grandma came and told me yesterday
after the police left that the mamma accidentally left her baby
in the car and it died,” Bell said.
The temperature
outside at the time was 92 degrees and the heat index had
reached 100, according to the 4Warn Storm Team.
“They’re
good people, they are. She was a good mamma,” Bell said. “Just a
mistake, an accident. That’s all it was.”
“I pray to God
that she gets through this,” she said.
The case remains
under investigation.
Bell said the child’s mother is
devastated and in shock.
“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.