Six-month-old baby dies in baking hot car after neighbor forgot about him for 7 hours in the USA
A six-month-old baby died after being left in a hot car for seven hours. Travis Carter Jr. was found in the back seat of a neighbor’s car after they allegedly forgot to return him to his father.
Paramedics pronounced him dead when they arrived at the scene around 9 p.m. on Tuesday, July 30, in Cordes Lakes, about 60 miles north of Phoenix, Arizona.
The neighbor, a teenager, was arrested and charged with negligent homicide. Earlier that day, Travis’s mother, Aleesia Phillips, asked the teen neighbor to drive her to Prescott Valley.
She brought Travis with her, and after the baby fell asleep, she asked the neighbor to drop him off at his father’s house when she went to work.
The neighbor arrived home around 2 p.m. but didn’t take the baby to his father, Travis Carter’s, house next door.
Instead, they parked the car exposed to the hot sun and went inside, claiming to have forgotten about the baby in the car, according to the police.
Travis called Aleesia around 8:45 p.m. to ask when the neighbor would be dropping off Travis.
Aleesia immediately called the neighbor to find out what was happening, and only then did they realize the baby was still in the car.
After realizing their mistake, the neighbor ran next door to the father’s house, and both the father and the neighbor pulled the baby out of the car, called 911, and attempted CPR, police said.
The neighbor, charged as a juvenile on Thursday, August 1, has not been named.
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