SOUTHLAKE - The death of
a 3-year-old girl Friday evening may be heat-related, Southlake
police said Saturday.
The child, whose identity has not been released, was found by her
father about 5:30 p.m. in his vehicle parked at a business complex
in the 600 block of East Southlake Boulevard (Farm Road 1709),
police said.
Police and paramedics found the child unconscious and
administered CPR. She was taken to Baylor Regional Medical Center at
Grapevine and was pronounced dead.
"We do have some indication that it's heat-related," said Lt.
Ashleigh Douglas of the Southlake Department of Public Safety. "We
are still waiting on the medical examiner's report to confirm that."
An investigator at the Tarrant County Medical Examiner's Office
said the cause and manner of death could be released as soon as
today, or it could take weeks pending the results of toxicology
tests.
"We're not sure at this point how long the child was in the
vehicle and how the child ended up in the vehicle," Douglas said.
"We know the child accompanied the father to the business complex."
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