According to local Columbus authorities, the boy, Kendrick Engram Jr., was out with his grandmother and three sisters. After they got home, the kids went to play and Grandma went to her bedroom.
More than two hours later, she saw that Kendrick was not playing. She immediately called her son who had borrowed the car, an SUV. He’d driven to a fast-food restaurant but hadn’t realized Kendrick was in the third row.
He checked the car and found his nephew. He was pronounced dead shortly afterwards. “He suffocated in the car, where it got way above 30 degrees,” coroner Buddy Bryan told ABC News.
According to the American organization SafeKids, this is the seventh child this year to die in a hot car in the US.