A Virginia father accidentally lost his 18-month-old son in a hot car when he went to work and forgot to drop him off for day care, and then took himself out of his family’s home. I shot and killed him.
- Virginia’s father died of suicide in Chesterfield, Virginia, after his 18-month-old son died in an overheated car.
- Preliminary findings show that the father went to work for three hours and forgot to drop his son in day care during the ongoing heat wave.
- Police found a son in a house on Aldengate Road and a father in the woods.
- Eighteen months old is the seventh child to die from an overheated car in the United States this year.
A Virginia father committed suicide on Tuesday after discovering his 18-month-old son had died in the backseat of an overheated car.
An unidentified father was found dead on Tuesday in Chesterfield with a gunshot wound on the head of a forest behind his home. Police were informed that he was threatening to harm himself. The policeman found the body of a young child in the house.
“This is a horrific tragedy on so many levels,” said Christopher Hensley, Lieutenant of the Chesterfield Police Department.
Police speculate that the father went to work three hours in the morning and forgot to drop his son in day care during the ongoing heat wave. According to the Weather Channel, temperatures in Chesterfield reached a maximum of 80 degrees Celsius on Tuesday.
According to preliminary investigations, the father died of a self-injured gunshot wound after discovering his son was dead in the car. Chesterfield police have not disclosed the names of their father and son, officials told the DailyMail.com.
A Virginia father killed himself on Monday after accidentally losing his son during a heat wave.
Police said the father found his son, went home, dropped himself inside, and entered the woods behind the house to commit suicide.
The policeman arrived at a house in the 14100 block of Aldengate after receiving a call from the boy’s family that he had not appeared in the nursery and his father committed suicide.
He was found in the woods behind his home around noon after police received information on his whereabouts.
The child’s family warned police on Tuesday morning that the boy did not appear in the nursery. After the family received a suicide statement from the boy’s father, officers responded to a home in block 14100 on Aldengate Road.
“When they arrived, they found people on the driveway with an open door with an empty child seat in the car,” Hensley said. “When they entered the dwelling, they found an 18-month dead.”
The father was discovered shortly afterwards, and the family said he would.
Lt. Col. Christopher Hensley of Chesterfield Police held a press conference on Monday to discuss the results of the preliminary investigation.
The 18-month-old boy is one of seven people in the United States who died in a car overheated in 2022.
“Thank you very much to my family and friends for trying to deal with this, but I don’t take the opportunity for people to capture this moment and clearly understand how important it is to check your car. We neglect, “Hensley continued.
Kendrick Engram Jr., 3, died in the heat of the 96th floor after his grandmother forgot about him in the backseat of the car on Sunday.
Engram was discovered by his uncle after he took his car to a fast food restaurant. The boy was in the third row shear of a Nissan SUV.
According to the National Weather Service forecast, he was suffocated after the maximum temperature reached 96 degrees Celsius and the minimum temperature reached 90 degrees Celsius.
Last week, Trace Means, 5, died in a car after being left in the heat of 100F for 2-3 hours in Houston, Texas on June 20th.
On Monday, Trace Means, 5, died in the backseat of his mother’s car.He is depicted above with his parents Amanda and Steve, and his sister 8
Investigators believe his mother, Amanda Means, forgot to remove his buckle after running through a $ 1.4 million home to hold a birthday party for her eight-year-old sister.
Amanda has not been charged with the death of her son, but investigations are ongoing.
Death from heat stroke in 2022 began on May 3, when an eight-month-old girl died in Snellville, Georgia. Since then, the number of deaths from boys and girls between the ages of 3 months and 5 has increased.