Birmingham Tragedy: 3-Year-Old Perishes After Being Dropped Off in a Hot Car by a Contract DHR Employee Three-year-old Ke’Torrius “KJ” Starkes Jr. of Bessemer was discovered unconscious in a hot car on Pine Tree Drive in Birmingham on June 22. Birmingham police said he had been left inside after 12:30 PM until 5:30 PM.
That day’s high was 96°F, and the car’s interior was probably warmer than 150°F. At 6:03 PM, KJ was declared deceased. Because of worries about drug use in his home, KJ was temporarily placed in the custody of Alabama’s Department of Human Resources (DHR).
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