2 Baby Boys, Both 6 Months Old, Die After Being Left in Hot Cars in Separate States on Same Day

Both babies died — one in Arizona, the other in Louisiana — on July 30

Two baby boys died on Tuesday, July 30 in hot car-related deaths as temperatures soared around the U.S., authorities said.

The deaths happened in separate states: one in Arizona, the other, in Louisiana.

Both of the deceased were 6-months-old. The Arizona victim's name has not yet been released, but the baby in Louisiana has been identified by the East Baton Rouge Coroner’s Office as Weston Crowdus, according to BRProud.

This story, sadly, isn’t uncommon. Around 37 children under the age of 14 die from being left in a hot car each year, according to NoHeatStroke.org, which studies child vehicular heatstroke deaths. Since 1998, more than 960 children have died from vehicular heatstroke, the National Safety Council reported.

In most cases, a child is left in the car unintentionally. Parents or caregivers change their routine — maybe a mom takes the child to daycare instead of the dad — and forget that their kid is in the backseat.

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For the death in Cordes Lakes, Arizona, a juvenile has been arrested and charged with negligent homicide, the Yavapai County Sheriff's Office confirmed in a Facebook post on Thursday, Aug. 1.

The baby there had been left in a hot car for approximately seven hours, and was pronounced dead on the scene by deputies and the fire department.

Authorities said the child's mother and her baby had gotten a ride from a neighbor into Prescott Valley earlier that day. When the infant fell asleep in the neighbor's car on the way back, the mother asked the neighbor to drop the baby off with his father, "who would be home shortly," while she went to work.

But the neighbor claimed to forget, YSCO said, and left the baby in the back seat after arriving home around 2 p.m.. Their car had been parked the car "in the hot sun."

Temperatures hit around 100 degrees in the Cordes Lakes area on Tuesday, according to AccuWeather reports.

Hours later, at around 8:45 p.m., the baby's father returned and reached out to the mother, asking for the child's whereabouts. "The mother, still at work, immediately called the neighbor responsible for her baby," police states. "It was then the neighbor realized that the baby was left in the car."

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In Baton Rouge, Louisiana, the tragedy that led to Weston Crowdus' dead was also blamed on a caretaker's mental slip.

“The parent accidentally forgot to drop the baby off at daycare and went to work," a representative for the East Baton Rouge Sheriff’s Office told WVLA. The parent "then went to pick the baby up from daycare and realized that the baby was still in the car."

Baton Rouge was under an "excessive heat warning," according to AccuWeather, with temperatures said to hit around 97 degrees on Tuesday, with a heat index of 112 degrees.

Per WBRZ, deputies responded to the home around 5:45 p.m. Tuesday.

An autopsy took place on Wednesday, July 31, BRProud reported, though the East Baton Rouge Coroner didn't immediately respond to PEOPLE's request for comment.

Police have not yet made any charges, ABC News reported, though the investigation is still ongoing. The East Baton Rouge Sheriff’s Office also did not immediately respond to PEOPLE's request for comment.

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