
A 4-year-old girl has died after being found unresponsive in a hot car in Buckeye on Sunday evening, marking the third such child fatality in Arizona this year and the 31st nationwide.
According to Buckeye Police, officers were called to a home near Verrado Way and McDowell Road at approximately 5 p.m. after a family member discovered the child inside a parked mini SUV. The family had returned home from a neighborhood park between 2 and 2:30 p.m. when the girl was inadvertently left behind. A relative realized she was missing just before 5 p.m. and found her unresponsive in the vehicle.