DeKalb County police say a 25-year-old mother was getting her hair done for six hours as her baby slowly died in a hot car. 
 
 Dijanelle Fowler is charged with second degree murder, child cruelty and concealing the June 15 death of Skylar Fowler, 1, according to warrants obtained by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The child was found dead in an Emory University Hospital parking deck when the mother went there and dialed 911. 
 
 Police said they don’t believe Fowler intended to harm the child. She left the air conditioning running, but when she finally emerged the car had shut off, according to DeKalb police. 
 
 The warrants suggest the case against Fowler was partly built by security camera footage. 
 
 Fowler had a hair appointment in the Northlake Tower Festival Shopping Center in the Tucker area at 10 a.m. Footage shows her enter at 10:06 a.m. and later emerge at 4 p.m., the warrants say. 
 
 Witnesses confirmed she never left the salon. 
 
 In the parking lot, Fowler couldn’t start the car and got a man at the hair dresser’s to assist. 
 
 The good Samaritan didn’t see the baby because, police believe, Fowler covered her up with clothes that were in the car or hid her in some other way. 
 
 Dijanelle Fowler (DeKalb jail) 
 
 “Between 4 and 4:54 (p.m.) she texted the child’s godfather that she was going to go to an urgent care for headaches,” a detective wrote. “(Fowler) also Googled about signs of seizures.” 
 
 She arrived at Emory at 4:54 p.m., soon dialing 911. 
 
 Police allege Fowler didn’t mention the child and instead said that she herself was “having a seizure of some kind.” 
 
 When officers arrived, Skylar was unresponsive in the back seat. 
 
 The medical examiner’s office believes she had been dead for “some period of time,” the detective wrote. 
 
 The obituary listed her as a Charleston, South Carolina, resident. 
 
 Skylar leaves “precious memories” to her parents, Louis R. Williams, II, and Fowler, it said. 
 
 The mother, who was treated and released from the hospital after her daughter’s death, was arrested Monday night. She has no bond. 
 
 The case is sure to bring to mind that of Cooper Harris, who died on June 18, 2014, nearly three years to the day from Skylar, in a hot car in Cobb County. Father Justin Ross Harris was convicted of murder after a sensational trial detailing his sordid sexual exploits and what prosecutors called his desire for a child-free life. 
 
 In that case, the jury found malice. In Fowler’s police have only charged her with second degree murder, which doesn’t require malice. 
 
 For more on the case, read here. 
 
 Like DeKalb County News Now on Facebook | Follow on Twitter and Instagram ||||| (Reuters) - A 25-year-old South Carolina woman was in jail on Tuesday on a murder charge for the death of her 13-month-old daughter, who police said she left in a car last month while she went to a hair salon in suburban Atlanta. 
 
 DiJanelle Fowler is shown in this DeKalb County Police photo released in DeKalb County, Georgia, U.S., July 18, 2017. Courtesy DeKalb County Police/Handout via REUTERS 
 
 The mother, DiJanelle Fowler, kept the car running with the air conditioning on, but the car’s battery died while she was inside the beauty shop in Tucker, Georgia, on June 15, said DeKalb County Police spokeswoman Shiera Campbell. 
 
 Police believe Skylar Fowler was dead by the time her mother returned to the car a few hours later, Campbell said. 
 
 “Instead of calling 911, she called roadside assistance to get her battery jumped,” Campbell said in a phone interview. 
 
 Fowler concealed the baby from the person who helped restart her car, then went to a hospital and called 911, Campbell said. 
 
 The mother told police she herself had passed out from some sort of medical condition, Campbell said. But the child’s condition indicated she had died sooner than the time Fowler suggested, the police spokeswoman said. 
 
 The high temperature in DeKalb County that day was 92 degrees Fahrenheit at 5 p.m., according to the National Weather Service. 
 
 Twenty-three U.S. children have died so far this year after being left in hot cars, up from 20 through mid-July in 2016, according to the nonprofit KidsAndCars.org, which tracks such deaths. 
 
 In all, 39 children died in hot cars in 2016. The highest annual number was recorded in 2010, when 49 children died, said Janette Fennell, founder and president of the KidsAndCars.org. 
 
 Children ages 3 and younger account for 87 percent of the hot-car deaths the group has tracked, she said. 
 
 Fowler left the Atlanta area after her daughter’s death. She was arrested late on Monday after turning herself in to DeKalb County Police, who had been searching for her, Campbell said. 
 
 In addition to the second-degree murder charge, she also is charged with second-degree cruelty to children and concealing a death, jail records show. Court records did not show whether Fowler had hired a lawyer. ||||| Dijanelle Fowler, 25, in court with attorney Charles Brant on a second-degree murder charge in the hot car death of her 1-year-old daughter, Skylar, on Aug. 3, 2017. 
 
 The 25-year-old mother accused of leaving her baby daughter in a car to die during a summer hair appointment was denied bond Friday in DeKalb County. 
 
 Dijanelle Fowler is charged with second-degree murder in the death of 1-year-old Skylar Fowler. Prosecutor Dalia Racine told the court there was no question the child died while the mother got her hair braided at a Lavista Road salon on June 15. 
 
 Testing shows the temperature in the car rose to 129 degrees, the heat index more than 150, Racine said. 
 
 Fowler was reportedly inside the salon for five and a half hours. 
 
 “No rush,” she told the hairdresser, according to Racine. “Take your time.” 
 
 Fowler, who was in town from South Carolina for a job interview, told employees at the salon the child was at day care. At one point, a relative who she’d been staying with stopped by the salon. Fowler told her the child was with a friend, Racine said. 
 
 Dijanelle and Skylar Fowler in an April 28, 2017 Facebook photo (HANDOUT/Facebook) 
 
 Fowler has said she left the air condition running in the car, which police have also said is also their understanding. But the prosecutor told the judge the state actually has no evidence of that. 
 
 Defense attorney Charles Brant said it’s clear the air conditioning is why the car’s battery died, leading Fowler to need help getting it jump started. 
 
 In the process of the jump, Racine said, the mother seemed calm and collected and told no one of Skylar’s condition. She later drove to Emory University Hospital. 
 
 The child’s father, Louis Williams II, joined with the prosecution in asking that bond be denied. Williams, an Air Force reservist who left court quickly, previously told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution he had chosen to forgive Fowler but didn’t want to comment on the charges. 
 
 Louis Williams II with daughter Skylar Fowler before the Air Force reservist deployed to the Middle East in March. (Family photo) 
 
 It was Williams, who had been deployed in the Middle East when his daughter died, who told investigators Fowler had confessed to him. She had previously given several false accounts of what happened, a detective testified in a previous hearing. 
 
 Judge Kiesha R. Storey said she chose to deny bond because Fowler has almost no ties to DeKalb County and presents a “flight risk.” 
 
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– Two cases of youngsters losing their lives in hot cars are making headlines this week. Skylar Fowler, 1, became the first child to die in a hot car in Georgia this year in a June 15 incident that's emerging following mother Dijanelle Fowler's Monday arrest. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports she is charged with second-degree murder, child cruelty, and concealing the death of her daughter, whom cops say was left in Fowler's car for six hours while she got her hair done. DeKalb County police believe the death was accidental; the 25-year-old left the car running with air conditioning on, but at some point between her 10am appointment and 4pm return to the car, the car died. WXIA reports video and witness statements indicate Fowler didn't leave the salon at any point during that six-hour period. Reuters quotes a police rep who says Fowler hid the baby in some manner and called roadside assistance for help in restarting her car; other reports suggest someone from the salon helped her jump her battery. Fowler then drove to Emory University Hospital, where she parked, called 911, and said she herself was suffering from some kind of seizure. Skylar was found by the responding team. The Knoxville News Sentinel has a more vague report of a child found dead around 2pm Friday in Gatlinburg, Tenn., following a report of a child being left in a car overnight. A neighbor confirmed the home address, and a search of records revealed it belongs to Jerry Kirkman, mayor of Westmoreland, Tenn. But the Gatlinburg Police Department has not yet confirmed that or released any details about the child's age, identity, or the circumstances.