[Faline]

A 31-year-old father whose infant son died after being left in a parked car in the Phoenix summertime heat was smoking marijuana next to the car with a co-worker part of the time, police said.




Daniel Bryant Gray, 31, was booked into a Maricopa County jail late Thursday, charged with manslaughter and child abuse, Sgt. Tommy Thompson said.

Police earlier said 3-month-old Jamison Dean Gray died after his father went on Wednesday, his day off, to check on business at a northeast Phoenix sports bar and restaurant where he worked as a kitchen manager.

When the baby was removed from the car shortly before noon, outside temperatures were about 100 degrees, but interior car temperatures are frequently much higher.

At first, police said the father was distracted and forgot about the boy.

However, a court document released Friday said investigators learned from an unidentified kitchen worker that the worker had seen Gray and another employee standing next to Gray's car and apparently smoking marijuana.

The employee seen outside with Gray later told police that Gray had asked the employee for marijuana "so the two went out back and stood in front of Daniel's car" about an hour before Gray remembered his son, police said in the document.

That employee, who was not identified by police, said he didn't notice the baby in the car and didn't know Gray was a father.

While he was in the restaurant, Gray did work that included helping kitchen staff prepare food, the document said.

When Gray remembered his son, he got the unresponsive baby and took him into the business' cooler where a co-worker began to perform CPR while another called 911.

The first officer to arrive at the scene tried to revive the child before an ambulance arrived, but the boy couldn't be revived and he was pronounced dead at a hospital.

"There's no question" that Gray didn't intend his son to die, a prosecutor said Friday during an initial court hearing for Gray.

However, Gray has a criminal history of substance abuse and he was grossly negligent, Deputy Maricopa County Attorney George Kelemen Jr. said.

The prosecutor said Gray's alleged crimes in his son's death are akin to an inattentive drunken driver causing the death of a passenger.

Kelemen noted that Gray has a criminal record that includes convictions for possession of marijuana and aggravated DUI.

"The state believes the tragedy that occurred Wednesday is not simply an unavoidable mistake of a thoughtful parent," Kelemen told a judge who set bail for Gray.

Gray doesn't yet have an attorney and he remained jailed Friday in lieu of $100,000 bond.

[kellyhound]

stats http://www.ggweather.com/heat/
tragic and unbelievable how someone can forget about them being left in a car

[Kanda444]

fuckin asshole... stoned or not, there is no excuse for forgetting about your child. what a disgusting asshole.

[banana dick]

sperm donor* fucking negligent, evil, irresponsible piece of shit. nobody, ZERO responsible parents who give a shit about their baby will ever "forget" them in a hot fucking car. this guy is a scumbag deadbeat who needs to pay for what he did.

[MrCorpse]

Slow roasted baby back ribs

[Maggots & Mayhem]

Every year you see these stories, and yet people still don't seem to learn!....and that guy looks like a douche.
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[Darkest Angel]

Very sad. This reminds of the guy last year that went to work all day & only remembered he had left his baby in the back seat when he got off from work. I can't imagine being so distracted that I would leave the most important little people in my world in the back seat to die. Thankfully mine are grown now. I have been misplacing things here lately.

[jokerlad19]

Originally Posted by MrCorpse ↗

Slow roasted baby back ribs

twat

[LiquidSky]

Originally Posted by Kanda444 ↗

fuckin asshole... stoned or not, there is no excuse for forgetting about your child. what a disgusting asshole.

It happened to a friend of mine. All it takes is one slight change in the morning routine, too much on your mind and functioning on autopilot.

I used to say the same thing every time I read a story like this until it happened to my friend. Now I don't judge.

[Kanda444]

Originally Posted by LiquidSky ↗

It happened to a friend of mine. All it takes is one slight change in the morning routine, too much on your mind and functioning on autopilot.

I used to say the same thing every time I read a story like this until it happened to my friend. Now I don't judge.

im not saying it couldnt happen to me... but i've never once not known where my children were at all times when they were under my care and have never left them in the car unattended