A contracted employee of the state’s Department of Human Resources left a three-year-old kid in a hot automobile for hours before he died.
On Tuesday, June 22, Bessemer resident Ke’Torrius “KJ” Starkes Jr. was discovered unconscious inside a car parked outside a residence on Pine Tree Drive in Birmingham.
KJ was in the automobile from around 12:3 PM to 5:30 PM, Birmingham police said, according to PEOPLE.
According to lawyer Courtney French, he was declared dead at 6:03 PM after local temperatures hit 96 degrees with a heat index that may have caused the car’s inside to reach 150 degrees.
