A young woman tragically died from extreme heat after being “locked inside her mother’s boyfriend’s sweltering car while we drove to work.”
Markise Outing, 24, of Florida, was arrested June 25 and charged with aggravated manslaughter of a child after he allegedly left his girlfriend’s six-year-old daughter in a locked car for about three hours.
Outing arrived at the South Manatee County Fire Department on May 20 around 5:17 p.m. seeking medical attention for the child, according to the Manatee County Sheriff’s Office.
Paramedics rushed to the scene where they found the girl unconscious, not breathing and with a body temperature of 107.2 degrees Fahrenheit, believing she may have suffered cardiac arrest.
After doctors made desperate but unsuccessful attempts to resuscitate the girl, they were forced to rush her to a local hospital for further treatment, as temperatures in the Bradenton area of Manatee County that day reached 89 degrees.
Markise Outing, 24, was arrested June 25 and charged with aggravated manslaughter of a child after he allegedly left his girlfriend’s six-year-old daughter in a locked car for about three hours in Manatee County, Florida, which caused his death.
The young woman tragically lost her life that same night in the hospital.
Police questioned Outing about the girl’s extremely high temperature, but she claimed it was because she was playing outside in a park and overheating.
However, officers revealed that the man’s version of events was riddled with inconsistencies and GPS data later collected by investigators suggested that the boy had been left inside a parked vehicle for several hours.
Officers said Outing had picked up the girl from school around 2:45 p.m., before driving to his workplace in Bradenton.
Here, he allegedly left the child inside his locked car with the windows closed while he worked.
It was chillingly revealed that if Outing had driven to the fire station as soon as he discovered the unconscious body of his girlfriend’s daughter, she would have been trapped in the sweltering car for approximately three hours.
MCSO said they believed temperatures inside the vehicle reached more than 115 degrees Fahrenheit, and an autopsy later revealed that the child died from the extreme heat.
Detectives are still awaiting the results of a toxicology report.
A group study ‘Children and car safety’ examined data from 1990 to 2023, which showed that at least 1,083 children died in hot cars in the US during that period.
Texas recorded 155 child deaths in hot cars in that period, Florida was second with 118 deaths and California was third with 65 deaths.
