New details are emerging about the father who is being charged with the death of his twin 15-month-old girls, who died in a hot auto Thursday.
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Asa North, 24, was charged with 2 counts of involuntary manslaughter and 2 counts of reckless conduct.
The two 15-month-olds were unresponsive after when neighbors found them still strapped in their carseats in an SUV outside a duplex in Carrollton Thursday evening, according to WXIA-TV. “One of the neighbors got some ice packs out of the freezer and carried it out there”, Dobbs said.
According to CBS 46, neighbors were alerted that something was amiss when they saw the girls’ father, Asa North, running towards the auto, pictured below.
The twins were transported to Tanner Medical Center in Carrollton where they were both pronounced dead.
The girls’ mother was in Atlanta visiting her sister in a hospital.
Brittany N. Reeder didn’t want to wake her sleeping daughter when the family arrived at a local pizzeria, so she made a decision to leave the baby in the vehicle.
“They were preemie babies but they were lovely babies”, she said.
Temperatures in the Carrollton area on Thursday reached above 90 degrees Fahrenheit (32 Celsius), with high humidity. “Period. Whether it’s running, whether it’s not, you should never leave a child buckled in a auto seat if you are not in the vehicle with them”, he said.
North had left them in the back of his SUV, according to police.
“We do believe they were left in the vehicle for a period of time, ” Carrollton Police Capt. Chris Dobbs told CNN, referring to the twins.
Dobbs said alcohol could have played a part. Police also took an uncle, Travis North, to the hospital due to “extreme intoxication”.
It isn’t immediately clear if North has an attorney. By this date in 2015, 12 children had died in hot cars, Fennell said in an email on Thursday night. The trial is expected to begin in September.
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The suspect is scheduled for his first court appearance Saturday.
