The father of a 2-year-old girl who died after she was left in a hot car for more than 16 hours in Baltimore's Belair-Edison neighborhood has been arrested, police said. 
 
 Child found unresponsive in locked car dies Photos A 2-year-old girl is dead after being left in a hot car for at least a full day. Police said she was discovered by her father. Child found unrseponsive in locked car Photos WBAL-TV\SkyTeam 11 
 
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 Officials were called around 5:30 p.m. to the 3400 block of Juneway, where the child was found locked in a car. 
 
 The girl was taken in very serious condition to Johns Hopkins Children's Center, where she later died, WBAL-TV 11 News reporter Kai Reed reported. 
 
 Investigators said her father discovered her in the car and that he's also the one who left her in the car at some point Sunday. 
 
 "He's walking down the street. He's crying. He's got a little kid in his hand, a lady comes out of the house or walks out the street and they just start screaming," witness Raven Jenkins said. 
 
 Police said a man went to his silver car parked on Brendan Avenue shortly after 5 p.m. Monday and found his daughter, Leasia Carter, inside and not breathing. 
 
 "He's sitting there like, 'Somebody's dead, somebody's dead,' and we couldn't make out what he was saying, but we know he was saying, 'Somebody was dead,'" witness Bella Osbourne said. 
 
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 "It never crossed my mind that something like that would happen," said Teresa Moon, Leasia's great-aunt. "He loved his girls, he loved his girls. He really loved his girls. He's grieving hard. It's just a tragic thing that happened." 
 
 According to investigators, the man ran back to his house about a block away on Juneway and called for help. 
 
 "The father went home at some point in time last night. This afternoon when he woke up, he discovered that his child wasn't there," Baltimore police Maj. Stanley Brandford said. "Right now, we know that the child was inside of that vehicle sometime (Sunday), but for certain we know that the child was left there all day (Monday). Of course with the temps and everything I'm pretty sure that the child cannot survive in that type of condition." 
 
 Investigators said that by the time Leasia was taken from the car, she had suffered second-degree burns. She'd been left in the car with the windows closed for 16 hours, most of it during sunlight hours Monday when the temperature neared 90 degrees. 
 
 Homicide investigators obtained a warrant for the victim's father, Wilbert Carter, 31, and arrested him Monday. He told investigators he had been drinking Sunday night into early Monday morning and had little memory of what happened. 
 
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 "He left his child unattended in the vehicle. We know that he went home, went to bed and when he woke up around 4 p.m. yesterday afternoon, that's when he began searching for his daughter," Baltimore police spokesman Jeremy Silbert said. 
 
 Carter is charged with second-degree murder and child abuse. He is currently being held at Central Booking. 
 
 Carter had sole legal custody of his daughter. Neighbors said he had another child with him when he went looking for Leasia. 
 
 Safety experts said the temperature inside a car in hot weather can climb to life-threatening levels in 10 minutes. 
 
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 A Baltimore man who left his 2-year-old daughter in a hot car for 16 hours after he had five drinks has been charged with her murder, police said. 
 
 Baltimore police said they were called at 5:15 p.m. on Monday for a report of an unconscious child inside a vehicle. Paramedics arrived and took the girl — Leasia Carter — to a hospital, where she was later pronounced dead. 
 
 A preliminary investigation found that the girl had been inside the vehicle unattended for 16 hours, according to police. Police said that the temperature outside reached 89 degrees while she was in the vehicle. She suffered second-degree burns in the car. 
 
 Her father, Wilbert Carter, 31, is charged with murder and child abuse. He is being held at the city jail. 
 
 Police said in a charging document that Carter told them he had consumed five alcoholic drinks during the day on Sunday. Around midnight, he said, a friend drove his car to Brendan Avenue. 
 
 He said he has no memory of what happened after that. His mother and aunt told him they saw him come home at about 7 a.m. When he woke up at about 4 p.m. on Monday, he asked them where his daughter was, he told police. 
 
 They told him that they had assumed the girl was with Carter’s sister. 
 
 A cousin then called to tell him that his car was still on Brendan Avenue. He went there, and found his daughter still buckled into her car seat. 
 
 Police said that Carter has a history of consuming so much alcohol that he passes out. 
 
 Authorities throughout the area sent out messages on social media saying it is never okay, especially in the summer heat, to leave elderly people, pets or children unattended or in vehicles. 
 
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 Heatstroke is among the leading causes of vehicle-related deaths that are not considered crashes among kids under 14, according to experts. 
 
 In 2014, 31 children died from heatstroke after being left unattended in cars, according to data from the Department of Meteorology and Climate Science at San Jose State University. 
 
 Research at San Jose found that more than half of about 630 children who died from heatstroke in a car over a 17-year period had been forgotten by a caregiver. 
 
 Seventeen percent died because a caregiver had intentionally left the child in the vehicle. And about 30 percent of the deaths were the result of a child playing in an unattended vehicle.
– Tragedy in Baltimore, where a 2-year-old girl died yesterday after being left in a hot car. Police say her father, Wilbert Carter, left her in the car sometime Sunday, and WBAL-TV reports that she was inside it for at least 16 hours. Carter, 31, is also reportedly the one who found her the next day around 5pm and ran to call police, who found little Leasia Carter in the locked car. A witness says she saw Wilbert Carter walking down the street, crying. "A lady comes out of the house or walks out the street and they just start screaming." Another witness says Carter was "sitting there like, 'Somebody's dead, somebody's dead,' and we couldn't make out what he was saying, but we know he was saying somebody was dead." He was later arrested on second-degree murder and child abuse charges. Carter told police he had five drinks on Sunday, was drinking into the wee hours of Monday, and couldn't remember what happened, but the Washington Post reports that he said a friend drove his car to the location where the girl was later found. "The father went home at some point in time last night," a police official said yesterday. "This afternoon when he woke up, he discovered that his child wasn't there." Adds a police spokesperson today, "When he woke up around 4pm yesterday afternoon, that's when he began searching for his daughter." He reportedly asked his mother and aunt where she was and they said they saw him come home at 7am and assumed the girl was with his sister, but he found her after a cousin called to alert him to where his car was parked. The child was not breathing when she was found, and she suffered second-degree burns in the 90-degree heat.