Twin toddlers died after being left in a hot SUV Thursday.
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It wasn’t immediately clear who discovered that the twins were unresponsive in their child seats in the back of the SUV.
North spoke with police at the scene who said they didn’t think he left the children in the vehicle intentionally.
Neighbors said North was frantic after the girls were discovered in the auto.
The twins were taken to a hospital, where they were pronounced dead.
Carrollton police arrested Asa north, 24, this week, after his twin 15 month-old daughters died from being left in a vehicle. But they also said Asa North, now charged in his daughters’ deaths, may have been inside his house drinking while the infants were dying in the auto.
The twins’ mother was reportedly at Grady Hospital in Atlanta visiting a relative during the incident but is said to be back in town.
Brittany N. Reeder didn’t want to wake her sleeping daughter when the family arrived at a local pizzeria, so she chose to leave the baby in the auto. She was described by police as “absolutely devastated” after learning of her daughters’ deaths.
His daughters, Ariel Roxanne North and Alaynah Marianne North, who were about a year and a half old, were found unresponsive Thursday evening in vehicle seats in the back of an SUV parked outside a home in Carrollton.
When police came for him, witnesses said North was completely silent.
Federal statistics show that more than 550 children nationwide have died since 1998 from being left in hot cars.
Outside temperatures were in the 90s on Thursday before police were called at 6:34pm.
Dobbs said the father and the neighbors tried to cool the children in an inflatable kiddie pool in a frantic effort to save them. “Some of the neighbors heard the commotion when he pulled the girls out of the auto, and they tried to help him”. “I did a quick patient assessment of the two infants and could see that they were not breathing, were pale in the face, and had blood coming from their nose and mouths”. He remains in the Carroll County jail.
Reiterated Dobbs: ‘It’s just a tragic situation, a sad situation for the whole family and for the community’.
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Harris’s trial was moved to the coastal Georgia city of Brunswick after a judge agreed with defence lawyers that an impartial jury could not be found in the Atlanta area. “We don’t know that yet”, said Dobbs.
