Trinidad: Boy in car died from extreme heat, dehydration

(Trinidad Guardian) An autopsy has determined that three-year-old Isaiah Hazel died of hyperthermia.

Three-year-old Isa­iah Hazel died of hy­per­ther­mia caused by ex­treme heat and de­hy­dra­tion.

This was re­vealed af­ter an au­top­sy was done on the boy’s body yester­day at the Foren­sic Sci­ence Cen­tre in St James.

Hazel’s par­ents de­clined to com­ment. His grand­moth­er, June Vin­cent, said she “had no words.”

“I don’t know what to say…I have noth­ing to say…what­ev­er is to be said is up to the par­ents…I don’t even want to know what the au­top­sy said be­cause I didn’t ask,” she told Guardian Me­dia.

Guardian Me­dia un­der­stands that the dri­ver of the bus was in­ter­ro­gat­ed by of­fi­cers from the Homi­cide Re­gion 3 Di­vi­sion based in the South­ern Di­vi­sion. The dri­ver, how­ev­er, is cur­rent­ly ward­ed at the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal af­ter falling ill.

It was re­port­ed that she col­lapsed when the boy’s body was dis­cov­ered in her ve­hi­cle on Thurs­day and was treat­ed at the Cou­va Dis­trict Hos­pi­tal. She al­so col­lapsed af­ter ques­tioned by the po­lice and was sub­se­quent­ly tak­en to the hos­pi­tal.

Hazel re­port­ed­ly fell asleep on his way to school and re­mained un­no­ticed by the dri­ver who re­turned home un­til it was time to re­turn for the chil­dren some six hours lat­er.

Class­mates found Hazel’s body ly­ing on the floor of the ve­hi­cle af­ter the dri­ver re­turned to the Morn­ing Star Ear­ly Child­hood Cen­tre in Cal­i­for­nia to pick up the chil­dren.