A young girl tragically died from extreme heat after she was left ‘locked inside the sweltering hot car of her mom’s boyfriend while we went to work’.
Markise Outing, 24, from Florida, was arrested on June 25 and charged with aggravated manslaughter of a child after he allegedly left his girlfriend’s six-year-old daughter in a locked car for around three hours.
Outing had arrived at a Southern Manatee County Fire Department on May 20 at around 5:17pm seeking medical attention for the child, according to the Manatee County Sheriff’s Office.
Paramedics dashed to the scene where they found the little girl unconscious, not breathing, and with a body temperature of 107.2 degrees Fahrenheit – believing she may have suffered from a cardiac arrest.
After medics made desperate but unsuccessful attempts to revive the child, they were forced to rush her to a local hospital for further treatment as temperatures in the Bradenton area of Manatee County that day reached 89 degrees.
Markise Outing, 24, was arrested on June 25 and charged with aggravated manslaughter of a child after he allegedly left his girlfriend’s six-year-old daughter in a locked car for around three hours in Manatee County, Florida, leading to her death
The young girl tragically lost her life later that evening at the hospital.
Outing was questioned by cops on the girl’s extremely high temperature, but claimed it was due to her playing outside in a park and becoming overheated.
However, deputies revealed that the man’s version of events was riddled with inconsistencies and GPS data later collected by investigators suggested the child had been left inside a parked vehicle for several hours.
Officers said Outing had collected the girl from school at around 2:45pm, before driving to his workplace in Bradenton.
Here, he allegedly left the child inside his locked car with the windows closed while he worked.
It was chillingly revealed that if Outing had driven to the firehouse as soon as he discovered his girlfriend’s daughter’s unconscious body, she would have been trapped in the sweltering hot car for around three hours.
The MCSO said they believed the temperatures within the vehicle reached over 115 degrees Fahrenheit – with an autopsy later revealing the child died from extreme heat.
Detectives are still waiting on the results of a toxicology report.
A study by the group ‘Kids and Car Safety,’ looked at data from 1990 to 2023, that showed at least 1,083 children have died in hot cars in the US over that period.
Texas saw 155 child hot car deaths in that period, Florida was second with 118 deaths, and California was third with 65 deaths.