Authorities in Nevada probing death of child in hot vehicle
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}A 4-year-old boy died after he was left for 90 minutes in a stifling hot vehicle while outside temperatures in Las Vegas reached 100 degrees.
Officer Laura Meltzer said Friday that Las Vegas police were called just before 6:30 p.m. Thursday, after the boy was found in the vehicle at a home east of downtown.
He was pronounced dead at Sunrise Hospital & Medical Center.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}No arrests have been made.
Lt. Tom Melton told the Las Vegas Sun the child's grandfather said he had the boy with him while running errands, and they returned home about 5 p.m.
Kids and Cars, a nonprofit that tracks child deaths and injuries in and around automobiles, says it was the 16th such case of its kind in the nation this year.