An investigation continues Thursday night after a 6-week-old was found unresponsive in a parked car in Muskogee.
Authorities are waiting for the state medical examiner to determine what killed the infant boy Wednesday.
Officers responded to this parking lot at Eastar Health System. Inside a parked car, police found an unresponsive baby boy who had been left alone for hours.
"These cases that involve children are probably the worst things that our officers, investigators, patrol and everybody deal with," Lincoln Anderson, Muskogee police spokesperson, said.
An aunt, Shelly Hopkins, went to pick up her 6-week-old nephew from daycare, only to be told by daycare staff she had never dropped him off.
Minutes later, police say "she went out to the car, and found the child unresponsive."
The daycare is overseen by Eastar Health and shares a parking lot with the hospital.
Police say they don’t know how long the infant had been in the vehicle before he was found.
Now, investigators are working to wrap up their reports to hand over to the district attorney.
"Right now we are not going to know anything, charges-wise until the investigators submit the report to the DA and we get the preliminary and finalized report from the ME's office," police said.
Once the medical examiner determines an exact cause of death, police say the DA will determine whether to file charges.
2 Works for You investigators spoke with Eastar Health System's marketing director, Michael Gilpin, who said the hospital’s thoughts and prayers are with the victims and everyone involved.
Muskogee police say this is the first child death of this nature for the department this year.
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