Toddler run over, killed in driveway

Infant Dies At Irvine Campus After Being Locked In Car
Death Appears To Be Heat Related August 9, 2003
NBC 4
Irvine, CA

IRVINE, Calif. -- A 10-month old boy died Friday after being locked for over three hours in his father's car on the University of California, Irvine campus during a heat wave, officials said.
The boy was discovered in the car shortly before noon by other motorists using the faculty parking lot, according to media reports.
Police were notified and broke the vehicle's windows to extract the baby, who appeared lifeless. Paramedics rushed to the scene and at 12:07 p.m. pronounced the child dead.
The father, not yet identified by police, returned to his vehicle minutes after the child was pronounced dead. Police said he was extremely distraught. He has not been charged with a crime.
Police said he had parked the car in the lot at 8:30 a.m. Temperatures reached into the 90s Friday.
An autopsy will be performed to determine if the child died of hyperthermia or from other causes.
Police said many faculty members on the campus took the remainder of the day off after hearing about the tragedy.
Two female students found the baby, according to NBC4.
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Professors' baby found dead in car in UCI lot
Police say the boy was left strapped in a child-safety seat for three hours.

By JOEL ZLOTNIK, JEFF ROWE and LAYLAN CONNELLY
The Orange County Register Saturday, August 9, 2003

IRVINE – The 10-month-old son of two UCI professors died Friday after his father left him in a locked car for three hours in a campus parking lot, police said.
Michael Warschauer was discovered by two students about 11:30 a.m. outside Berkeley Place, an office building at the University of California, Irvine, police said.
Authorities said the baby had been in the Hyundai Elantra since about 8:30.
The infant was the son of Mark Warschauer, a Fulbright scholar, author, and vice chairman of UCI's Department of Education, and Keiko Hirata, a part-time political-science professor. The family declined to talk at their home Friday afternoon, while neighbors broke into tears when they heard the news. "Mikey," as he was known to neighbors, was strapped into a car seat in the back seat of the car.
The students ran to call campus police and summoned doctors from a clinic about 100 yards away. Campus police arrived within three minutes and punched out the rear window of the car. But the infant had been dead for perhaps an hour or more, police said. Although the dark sedan was apparently partially shaded by two eucalyptus trees in the morning, it was in bright sun by late morning. In a closed car in the sun, "you're basically putting a child in a greenhouse,'' said Dr. Phyllis Agran, a pediatrician and a UCI child- safety expert. The coroner's office said an autopsy is scheduled for today.
It was unclear why Warschauer left his son in the car. Police said the case remains under investigation. Some similar cases in recent years have been prosecuted under child-endangerment laws.
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Dead baby found in car at UCI
The 10-month-old boy was found in a parked Hyundai just before noon.

By GARY ROBBINS and ZAHEERA WAHID
The Orange County Register Friday, August 8, 2003

A 10-month old boy was found dead in a Hyundai Electra shortly before noon today outside Berkeley Place, an office building at the University of California, Irvine, authorities said.
The child was discovered at 11:58 a.m. by a passerby. Authorities responded and broke a window of the locked vehicle to reach the child, who was pronounced dead at 12:07 p.m., said Jim Cohen, a UCI spokesman.
A man believed to be the child’s father returned to the scene 12:13 p.m. and was taken into custody by campus police for questioning.
Berkeley Place is located at the corner of Campus Drive and East Peltason Drive, across the street from the campus police station.