The Houston area mother was doing chores with her son and eight-year-old daughter that day and was in a hurry to host her daughter when she got home, County Sheriff Harris Ed Gonzalez told CNN affiliate KTRK.

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The mother and daughter got out of the vehicle and did not notice that they had left the five-year-old still tied to the back seat of his car. “Between maybe two and three hours, Mom noticed that the other five-year-old (was not) anywhere,” Sheriff Gonzalez told KPRC, an NBC subsidiary. “She started calling him, but he did not answer. “He ran out in a frenzy and found that the five-year-old was still bent over in his car seat.” The story goes on under the ad The mother found her son unresponsive and immediately called 911. When the first correspondents arrived, they found that the child was dead at the scene. It is unclear whether the mother will face charges over her son’s death. 3 units shipped to Blair Hill Ln 13700 blk. Upon arrival, the units found that a child (probably 5 years old) remained inside a vehicle for several hours. The child was found dead at the scene. HCSO investigators are at the scene. #HouNews pic.twitter.com/MNbhPHIHSU – Ed Gonzalez (@SheriffEd_HCSO) June 20, 2022 “It seems that the child usually knows how to get out of the child seat and open the door, but in this case it did not happen,” Gonzalez told KPRC. There was no child lock in the car either, according to CNN. Trending Stories

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It is not clear why the child did not bend over and leave the car, but investigators believe he was probably confused because the car was rented and not the usual family car. The story goes on under the ad The local medical examiner’s office has not yet announced an official cause of death, but Gonzalez told KPRC that the five-year-old boy probably died of heatstroke.

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Temperatures in Houston hit a record high of more than 38 degrees Celsius on Monday, according to CNN Weather. About 38 children under the age of 15 die from heatstroke each year in the United States after living in hot cars, according to the National Safety Council. In Canada, about one child dies each year trapped in overheated cars, according to a report by Hospital for Sick Children. Most of these incidents occur when a caregiver forgets that their child is in the car. 1:34 The police officer’s camera records the tense rescue of a small child in a hot car Previous Video Next Video © 2022 Global News, part of Corus Entertainment Inc.