A two-year-old boy is safe after being left in a hot car in Shreveport.
Someone saw the little boy in distress inside the car outside a Dollar Tree store and flagged down an officer about 100 yards away.
“This was at about 10:30 to 10:45 in the morning; the temperature here in Shreveport at that point in time was about 93 degrees,” says Shreveport Police Cpl. Christopher Bordelon.
The temperature inside the vehicle even hotter, even with the window rolled down.
“We estimated due to the car being on an asphalt surface and the child being inside of that car, it was well over 100 degrees inside of the car when the officers removed the child,” says Cpl. Bordelon.
The child was left inside the hot car for quite some time.
“We estimated somewhere between 20 and 30 minutes,” Bordelon says.
The boy’s mother, LaCrystol Johnson, eventually walked out of the store and was arrested and charged with child desertion.
“She had said that she felt like it was okay to leave the child inside the car because she left a window down,” Bordelon says, referring to what Johnson told responding officers.
Despite the length of time the little boy was left in the hot car, he came out of the ordeal unscathed.
“We called immediately for Shreveport Fire Department and EMS to check out the child,” says Bordelon, “and the child was ultimately released to his father.”
Bordelon says it was a good thing that there was a police officer nearby for the citizen to flag down.
“Had our officers not been present,” Bordelon says, “this could have been something that was much worse than what it was.”
