Adorable 4-year-old Georgia boy dies in hot car after entering it by himself while outside playing

An adorable 4-year-old Georgia boy is dead after he entered a car on his own and became trapped inside the scorching hot vehicle.The Candler County Sheriff’s office said they were called to the Summer Trace Apartments in downtown Atlanta after Kameron Jamel Williams was reported missing by family members at around 1 p.m.on Sunday, WTOC reported.Sheriff’s officers, with the help of the Metter Police and the 4-year-old’s family, searched rigorously in the sweltering 91-degree heat in hopes of finding the missing youngster.However, the boy was found dead inside the passenger area of a hot car in the apartment complex’s parking lot during the search and was pronounced dead at the scene.The Candler County coroner confirmed that when the boy was found, he was beyond help.The Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) stated that a preliminary investigation revealed the 4-year-old left his apartment to play outside.

A nearby camera shows someone, believed to be Williams, climbing into a car but never getting back out.The boy’s body was taken to the GBI Coastal Crime Lab Medical Examiner’s Office for an autopsy to determine his official cause of death.Metter’s Police Department Captain McKinley Lewis said that no foul play is suspected at this time, but the case remains under active investigation.From 1990 to 2023, 55 children have died in Georgia in hot cars, according to statistics provided by the Kids and Car Safety organization.Since 1990, more than 1,100 children have died in hot cars in the United States, with 88% of the deaths nationwide being children 3 years old or younger.On average, 40 children die each year from heatstroke inside a vehicle across the nation.At least another 7,500 kids have survived with varying degrees of injury.The director of the Kids and Car Safety organization, Amber Rollins, said that around 55% of the deaths that happen each year are a result of the child entering the car alone.“Children who get into cars on their own are typ...