Bexar County authorities said 1-year-old Ari’yanna Sanora Combs was in the car for hours on a day when it reached 101 in San Antonio.
SAN ANTONIO — The Bexar County Sheriff’s Office says a 1-year-old girl is dead and her parents arrested after the baby was left in a hot car on the far southwest side Thursday, when temperatures reached 101 degrees in San Antonio.
At 6:11 p.m., sheriff’s deputies responded to the 12100 block of Parish Divide after parents called 911, saying their daughter was found unresponsive in a car, according to a BCSO incident report. The baby was identified as Ari’yanna Sanora Combs.
According to authorities, the parents – Shavetta Leandra Combs and Aaron Michael Combs, both 27 years old – had taken Ari’yanna with them as they picked up their two other children from school, but they “forgot the baby in the car upon returning home.”
She was pronounced dead at 6:38 p.m.
The incident report says it was determined Ari’yanna was in the car alone for more than two hours before her parents took her out. According to Sheriff Javier Salazar, the father admitted to investigators that he was playing video games and the mother said she was napping at the time.
“There was certainly ample opportunity had they simply just looked in the back seat or done what they need to do to get that child out of that situation,” Sheriff Javier Salazar said Friday. “But by their own admission (they) seemed to be in their own little world.”
They now face charges of injury to a child resulting in death and their bonds set at $60,000 each.
BCSO said Ari’yanna died from heat-related injuries, but the medical examiner’s office still has to determine her official cause of death. In the meantime, Salazar said, Child Protective Services has placed the parents’ other two children with grandparents.