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More Information Released On Child Death In Vicksburg
By: Mike Stiles - Wednesday, October 9, 2024

(photo courtesy of Kalamazoo County Sheriff's Office)

(VICKSBURG) – More information has been released on the death of a three year old boy in August.

According to records obtained by Swick Broadcasting from the Kalamazoo County Sheriff’s Office, Deputies along with the Vicksburg Police Department were called to the parking lot of the Family Fare Grocery Store in Vicksburg at 3 PM on August 3. A man came out of the store and found his three year old son dead in his car seat.

The man told officers that he had left his house in Athens with his son and daughter. He dropped his daughter off at her day care and forgot his son was in the vehicle, and drove to work in Vicksburg.

After work, he went to the grocery store, where cameras have him coming in at 3:05 PM and leaving at 3:15 PM. As he was putting the groceries in his vehicle he noticed his son in the car seat, unresponsive.

Authorities determined the boy was dead, and that he died between 7 AM and 3 PM while his father was at work. It’s believed that the child died from heat exhaustion, but an official cause of death won’t be released until toxicology and histology results have been finished and returned to the Medical Examiner.

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