A Virginia father killed himself after he found his 18-month-old son dead in the backseat of an overheated car on Tuesday.
The father, who was unidentified, was found dead on Tuesday in Chesterfield with a gunshot wound to the head in the woods behind his home after police received reports he was threatening to harm himself. Officers found the body of the young child inside the home.
‘This is a horrible tragedy on so many levels,’ Chesterfield Police Lt. Col. Christopher Hensley said.
Police speculate the father went to work in the morning for three hours and forgot to drop his son off at daycare during an ongoing heatwave. Temperatures in Chesterfield reached a high of 80F on Tuesday.
