Harris County, Texas — A five-year-old boy died after being left in a hot car for hours.
The unbelievable tragedy unfolded in one of the driveways of Blair Hill Lane Monday afternoon in northeast Harris County.
Sheriff Ed Gonzalez said a mother getting ready for her eight-year-old daughter's birthday party accidentally left her son in the car.
Distracted by party preparations, the sheriff said, the mom wasn't aware her son was missing from inside the house for several hours.
"She's excited trying to get things together," Gonzalez said. "Unfortunately this time the child did not make it out. And again, with the business of the activities that they were preparing for, it took a while for them to notice that that the child wasn't in the house."
By the time mom began searching for her son, investigators said it was already too late.
Crime scene tape and investigators' cars now filled the cul-de-sac where birthday balloons and well wishers were planning to celebrate.
The sheriff said the family's regular car was being worked on, and the current theory is that the little boy was unfamiliar with the loaner Porsche.
"We believe this is a rental vehicle," Gonzalez said. "So perhaps the child wasn't as familiar with it. The door did not have any kind of child safety lock enacted or anything like that."
According to the sheriff, the child may have been in the car for up to three hours.
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