Chesterfield police say a distraught father shot himself after discovering he’d left his 18-month old son in his car while at work. WWBT’s John Hood reports.
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I am so sorry for everyone involved.
I’m trying to understand how this is happening over and over again. How do you forget your children are in your car?
It is not forgetting the child in the car so much as not realizing he did not go to the daycare. It is not difficult to have the previous days memory in your mind and think it was what you did today especially when you do something everyday. Most likely in his mind he dropped the child off at the daycare but he was just remembering the day before.
Very Sad 😞 R.I.P. little one!
He simply couldn’t live himself such a tragedy.May they both Rest In Peace and my prayers to their family and friends
Double tragedy
He killed his baby on purpose how you don’t know there’s a baby in car
Hachwo
How can you forget your fvcking baby? Wtf kind of drugs do you have to be on for you to not remember your number 1 priority? There is no fvcking excuse for this 5hit. 🤬
Repent for the kingdom of heaven is at hand Repent Matthew chapter 6:9 repent vain is the help of man repent
I don’t know why this is in my feed… but come on cook a roast! Not dababy!
Also…..why are people STILL leaving babies in hot cars xD. Common sense is DEAD!!! I been hearing this same story EVERY SUMMER for about 15 years of my life 😂 its not even sad anymore its just stupid
Pretty bad parenting to be able to do something like that
Rip 🙏 🕊
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Wow. Heartbreaking. My heart goes out to the wife/mom and their families. Rip.
So sad!!I think it can happen to anyone!..So sorryyy!..🙏
What a horrible tragedy that’s terrible
Now if we could get the drug dealers to do the same for the poison they hand out.
Lord, Jesus..this is heartbreaking. God help his spouse
How can u forget your kids I mean there your kids.
poor dady😢 how sad this is cant even imagine😢
I cannot live with myself if I have done that to my kids too!!!!
His negligence was the cause of his child’s death.. The Shame was too much for him to live with throughout his life so he decided to end his life. The Father is a Selfish individual.
Parents worse nightmare 😔
Karma sorted that one out! Swish Swish!
Cold 🥶 world 🌍
Imagine the mothers pain
So many societal excuses for MURDER. Nothing more. Especially when the person is white. “Oh how sad!” Anything but? “____ was high on drugs while their child roasted alive. More coverage at 11! NBC is just as much to blame for racial bias and reportage as the person who killed their kid. SHAME SHAME SHAME SHAME SHAME SHAME SHAME!!!!!!!
I thought there was no such thing as an accident… HUH????????????
Not only the pain of killing your kid but then knowing our justice system would then prosecute him for an accident harder than they do real criminals
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Wow. Some things just hit harder than others
I have many many flaws as a parent but I just really never understood how forgetting your child in the car for more than a minute is even humanly possible
He is in my prayers.
Car companies should be required to put sensors in vehicles that alert the driver if something was left in the vehicle
Praying for the family members friends and community. Heartbreaking. 🙏
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LORD help this family. Prayers & Condolences
How can you forget you have a child in the back seat. Dont yell at me but im a mom of 3 and i have never once forgotton i had kids or a kid in the car before leaving it. Unless your high or something. Tragic end but this shouldnt have happened.
Prayers for the wife, she lost both child and spouse. 🥹🙏🏼
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My God this is BEYOND tragic💔💔💔💔💔💔the AGONY that father must have felt..Lord have mercy for that wife who lost her Husband and child😪
Put your cell phone/purse/wallet in the back seat.
Excellent idea!!!
Years ago my husband & I took our 7 yr. old son & 9 mo. old son to Disney World. With the massive size of the Amusement park & the massive number of people that fill the park every day, I went in knowing the potentiality of how one could lose a child at Disney in a moment of parental distraction. We rented one of the big solid strollers they provide for small fee. When our 7 yr. old wanted a break from walking, he chose to ride in the stroller. Twice that day I got distracted for a ‘split second’ more or less & panic flooded through me. I forgot in that ‘split second’ that our 7 yr. old was safely resting in the stroller that I was pushing while my husband was carrying our 9 mo. old son.
In that moment my mind was expecting to see our son walking beside us & when I didn’t see him I said in a terrified voice, “where is A….!???!!!!!” My husband immediately reminded me he was safe & in the stroller I was pushing.
Two times I experienced that same panic & both times I momentarily forgot that I knew he was in the stroller. That is how quickly, easily our mind can get distracted & forget. Even if it is our precious child! Even when we are being diligent in keeping them safe. Every parent has had moments of distraction, usually the distraction is so brief that it doesn’t have the severe consequence of death of our precious children.
If you are saying, “this could not ever happen to me” or “there is no excuse for this father’s forgetting his child” you are forgetting any or all of the times you were distracted as a parent that thankfully didn’t have a tragic ending. This is an extreme one & it is horrifying to go there in our minds empathically because then we’ll feel what that father felt & that is an extraordinary amount of fear, pain, guilt, pain. Noone WANTS to feel that!
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Looks like a dad without common sense
I just don’t know why or how you can forget that child in the back of the seat… Priority number 1 for myself is child safety and when you know that you’re having a child, you promised to keep her/him safe… It’s kills you knowing you failed
The more reason the legal system needs to be reasonable when handling such cases. It is painful to see your child die under such circumstances. It is even more painful to spend several years in jail as a parent after such a loss.
Jesus Christ when are u coming to save us all We need u down here.
That was Jesus left in the car. We only got one chance too.
Sad, sad, sad.
this is most definitely such a tragic story. It is not up to a car to remind you your child is in it, it’s not up to anybody else to remind you that your child is in the car. I raised my two sons by myself in Florida, I made them get out of the car when they could walk, the first responsibility of a parent is to make sure your child is not in a car, there are so many distractions nowadays that people forget, like cell phones, music playing, and all sorts of things like that. A parents first responsibility is to their children not to anything else. A person can always go back for their phone, or their purse, or their groceries, my prayers are with the mother and the whole entire family including the father and the poor baby who lost his life or their her life. This is a tragic story. I’m hoping that people will see the light and not leave their kids or little ones in the car unattended.
Good riddance father . You needed to go after that stupid mistake.
Everyone please share how you remember to double check your vehicle to make sure your child is or isn’t with you!
Here’s 2-
1. Ask Siri to set an alarm for 5-10 minutes after you reach your final destination and then when the alarm goes off double check that your child is where they are supposed to be.
2. Take shoe off child and place in front seat, when arriving at destination pick up shoe and put on child and take child with you.
3. Do both steps 1 & 2 to make extra certain your child is with you! Prayers for everyone and their families for safety and health! <3
There’s so many tech applications that can be applied to every single car that could prevent these horrid accidents from happening.
Automatic semi window roll down when temperatures reach a certain level
Motion/noise sensors for inside vehicle baby moves/cries you get a notification via sms and a call
AC turns on to maintain temperatures this can be turned off after you verify nobody is in the car via inner camera
A simple camera inside and sensor running off a 4g connection
My heart goes out to the family, I’m so sorry for your losses Both just such a tragedy 💔
Sad 😥
Blame the economic system since it’s what’s making people stressed and forgetful.
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Why don’t car manufacturers put a sensor in each seat ?
When I put a bag of groceries on my front seat it dings constantly to tell me that the seat belt is not attached and that the airbag is deactivated
So there are already sensors in the seats to tell it that there’s something sitting on the seat.
How difficult would it be to add a software update to the ECM that would sound an alarm of the anti-theft system if you exit the vehicle and close the door and there is something sitting on one of the seats ?
It seems like it should be easy enough to write a code patch update for the ECM to activate the car alarm if you exit your vehicle and there is something sitting in any seat of the car.
If you close the door and your baby is in the seat and the car alarm 🚨 goes off, you would know the baby is in there.
You could even program a special alarm. Instead of woo-woo-woo-woo,
You could do
BEEP,BEEP,BEEP, BEEEEEEEEP,BEEEEEEEEP,BEEEEEEEEP, BEEP,BEEP,BEEP
AN 🆘🆘🆘🆘🆘
SOUNDING ALARM THAT EVERYONE WOULD HEAR AND KNOW ” BABY IN CAR !!!!!!! ”
YOU COULD EVEN PROGRAM THE ECM TO ACTIVATE ONSTAR IF THE BABY IS NOT REMOVED IN 30 SECONDS
AN EMERGENCY MESSAGE COULD BE TRANSMITTED TO ONSTAR
” EMERGENCY – BABY LEFT IN CAR – LOCATION OF VEHICLE IS ….
CALL POLICE AND EMS ”
THEY COULD CALL POLICE AND GET THEM TO THE SCENE IN 10 MINUTES
THIS HAPPENS TOO OFTEN AND WE HAVE THE ABILITY TO PREVENT THESE DEATHS.
ONSTAR CAN OPEN THE WINDOWS WHILE WAITING FOR THE POLICE TO ARRIVE.
So Tragic
God bless both souls, and help the family find peace.
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So sorry 😢 just remember always to be responsible RIP
I have a sad, HONEST feeling that if I discovered i left my son in my car- i wouldn’t be able to live with myself either. My heart goes out to this families mother 🥺❤️🩹
So sad ….
This is the worst !!!
Otter
How can a parent forget their OWN child !!
GUN LAWS. Understand??? So if a pregnant woman cannot get an abortion & gets distraught, has a gun, then commits suicide. Thank you for all that, f*cking republican supreme court justices.
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Notice how these deaths spiked up after the intro of handheld technology? I’m not making excuses, just an observation. What a terrible tragedy, Prayers for the family.
If I accidentally left my child in the car, I would take my life too.
Car makers should make a alarm that sends off a siren detector for any form of life in a car after it is locked or the door is closed.
Such a tragedy in all our Hearts 😔
So sad…
🙏🏾 Praying
This is so painful, to imagine the baby’s suffering and then the anguish of the father .What has happened to us?This world our lives are so messed up We have to have reminders for almost everything now, we are all over done, over busy, over stimulated, over worked over accomplished, but hardly a moment in the day to enjoy and love each other our kids our friends our pets
I have reminders, alarms and appointment book. Without them I do not think I could keep track of all that is going on in my life, there is just so much going on.
Im crying so hard for that baby. The second i turn my engine off i RUN to open the door where my child is sitting to make sure that hes not in a hot car for longer than 2 seconds. My biggest fear is always if something were to happen to me on the way from closing his door to getting into my seat to turn the engine on and no one would know hes in the car (we live in the suburbs). Its always always on my mind. RIP to both of them…
Redemption
Omg I worked in chesterfield VA I would’ve never thought of something like this happening.. so tragic rip
What a truly heartbreaking story 💔…how incredibly awful, poor man, poor baby
Ugh so heart breaking 🥺 just to come to terms of telling your spouse I couldn’t look at them in the eye I’d probably do the same thing.
I’m so sorry for the family of the father and infant.
Almighty and Merciful Father, Bless the loved ones, family and friends of the two deceased. Comfort them in this time of tragedy and sorrow. Heal them of these emotional traumas and help them to understand and move forward that they may someday live happy and productive meaningful lives.
Bless the souls of the deceased. May they rest in peace.
In Jesus’s Holy Name I pray. Amen.
So sad😢 I must say one thing, nowadays when every person is talking nonstop on the phone with that earplug(I don’t even know what it’s called because I will never ever get one), they are never quiet and thinking about the sourraundings,always just talking,having their brains activated on a person that they talk to,wich means they are not 100% present with what’s going on around them; not on the traffic, not on possible dangers, not on their kids…I don’tknow if THIS particular man was talking with someone as he got off his car but IF he was then that could have been the reason why he wasn’ focused on his child.
Gonna be an awful lot more of these “accidents” with the bans.
People on these antidepressants are neglecting their responsibility bc of how the brain works while on them..
He was bold enough to take his own life..
Says a lot. Rethink chemical therapy!
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It is hard to even imagine that happening. I used to drop off my son at school then my infante. I had made it a habit with my first son to open back doors and check in the back seat an the third seat. So five years later when I had my second baby I was used to looking in back seat plus third seat every time I got out of car. Now they are older with families of their own and I still open back door and check inside and get my purse that I hook to my backrest. Old habits.
No one has a perfect brain. I think all parents should take preventive measures so that this does not happen. Write a note in your car or workplace, set alarms on your phone. Create a system with your partners to remind each other to check the back seat. People asking how is this possible, too many things are possible and as much as we think it won’t happen to us, we simply don’t know. We need to do our best to make sure we take care of one another. My heart goes out to the family and friends.
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People are stressed out these days. RIP
So selfish
I’m a single parent with an only child. I think I would have done the same…
Wow, terrible situation. Condolences to the mother.
Good good
All I read was the title and I am crying. OMG. Imagine being happy with your baby in the morning and just hours later, your baby is dead and you’re getting ready to take your own life. While I really could never understand how anyone could forget their baby in a car, I guess it happens. Since I live in AZ, a sitting car can get up over 130 degrees in direct sun. The steering wheel and/gear shift is often too hot to the touch. One day, thinking about one of these cases, I was leaving somewhere middle of an AZ summer and simply got in my car and sat there with the windows up to see how long I could stand it. It was horrible!! I couldn’t breathe and got panicky. I had to get out of the car while it cooled off. If you live in a hot place, no matter where you walk in a parking lot, check the cars you pass for kids and animals. This has to be one of the worst ways to die. I hope this dad is with his baby So, so sorry for both of them😥
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Mind boggling
I used to be extremely absent minded and I used to have this recurrent thought that one day I would give birth and walk out the hospital without the baby because I forgot I’d given birth. I used to also be afraid of leaving the baby on the roof of the car or on the sidewalk or something, such was the extent of my forgetfulness. My sincerest condolences to the family, especially the mother of who lost both child and partner in the same day. Sad.
OH well, move on.
Darwin won today.
Got a twofer
Thats crazy. How the h3ll do you forget your kid is inside the car 🤔
A tragedy all the way around. Condolences to all left behind.
Poor guy, RIP to both