You guys got a pulse OR ANYTHING? >> [screaming] >> HE'S GONE. JESUS. WHAT LOOKED LIKE A devastating hot car accident was about to become something much darker. Because the more officers dug into baby Grayson's final hours, [music] the more one person kept coming up, his own mother. Let's go. I'm sorry, there's nothing we're going to be able to do for Let's go over here and talk. Jesus. I need to know what happened. On September 16th, 2024, Deputy Matthew [music] Prest responded to the 2400 block of North Peoria Avenue. A call no officer ever wants to take. A grandfather had found his 1-month-old grandson lifeless inside a U-Haul truck, pulled him onto the grass, and started CPR with his bare hands. What deputies found when they arrived was heartbreaking, but what they'd uncover in the days that followed was something else entirely. I'm trying to address is going to be 2417 Peoria. >> [screaming] >> Is he All right. You guys got a PULSE OR ANYTHING? NO, NOTHING. OKAY. CALL ME. Who all was here? It was us. Whose Whose kid is this? IT'S MINE. THIS is your kid? >> kid, yes. I just laid him down for a bottle. Like an hour ago, dude. He just got there. He's gone, y'all. When Deputy Prest arrived on scene, a family member was hunched over little Grayson, still refusing to give up. And just a few feet away, his mother, 25-year-old Andrea Lunsford, was pacing around. Before long, fire rescue arrived and took over. But for the officers already on scene, something about Andrea's demeanor had already started to feel wrong. Oh, Jesus. He's gone. I'm sorry, HE WAS ASLEEP? HE'S GONE. JESUS. OKAY, HOLD ON. HOLD ON. DADDY, BREATHE ON HIM. I DON'T KNOW. HE'S ONLY DOWN FOR 20 MINUTES. EVERYONE BREATHE ON HIM. Get away from him. Honestly. Yeah? Okay, hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. I told YOU HE'S ONLY DOWN FOR 20 MINUTES. HOLD ON. IS HE BREATHING, DAD? DAD, COME HERE. CAN I GO INSIDE? DAD. OKAY. YES, he is. Get back, baby. Come on. GET BACK. SHUT UP. 42 and 1/2 11 go inside. Yeah? 11 and 1/2 stay out. Who is he? He's gone. Come on. He's gone. He's dead. Yep. Where is he, yes? HE'S NOT MOVING. YEAH? HOLD ON. WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE? YOU NEED TO BE ON THERE. YOU KEEP doing that. Come on. Mommy, sorry. Come back over here, okay? Come back over here. I know. Oh, Jesus. 30 minutes. Now. 30 minutes. No, he was with me. 30 minutes. WE WERE HERE WHERE was the kid at? >> In the car seat. He was in the car seat? Yes. Okay, just step back, please. What is that? That's called lividity. Oh, Jesus. He's gone, y'all. My baby's been He's gone. for a long time. This is not what I called. He's gone. I'm sorry, there's nothing we're going to be able to do. What? Hey, come over. Come Come sit Come Just come sit over here. DON'T DON'T TOUCH HIM. UNFORTUNATELY, there's there's nothing we can do. Ma'am, I need you to I know. I know. I know. Hey. Oh, my god. God. back over here. Does he have any medical problems? No. What are you allergic Allergic to penicillin. Oh man. All right, they're going to start they're going to start hooking some stuff up. Just keep stuff back for me. Just just come back over here. Sadly, it was already too late. Baby Grayson was gone and there was nothing fire rescue could do. While paramedics attended to him, officers turned their attention to Andrea. They needed answers and they were about to get a story that would raise far more questions than it resolved. We got We we got to I got to talk to you for a second. Stop talking. BUT I KNOW, THAT'S WHAT YOU'RE DOING. WELL WELL OKAY. LISTEN. WOW, THAT'S WHAT I'm saying. There's like 20 people here. Let's go over here and talk. Jesus. I need to know what happened. Give him some help. Give him some dying in the light room. That's what I Yeah. What what happened? I had him down for a bottle for about 30 minutes. For how long? We just went to um go to the hotel. And I went back there. That's how I found him. He's had four bottles today in the last 3 hours. Okay. Was he was he in the car the whole time? Yeah. Okay, so so you had him in the car seat >> Yeah, laying down in the U-Haul. Okay. And he was sitting Which car was he in? The U-Haul. The U-Haul? >> U-Haul, yeah. Okay, so he was sitting in the car seat in the U-Haul for how long? For about a couple hours. We just left to uh go to my friend John's house. >> He was in the car for a couple hours? We were just driving around. Okay, like alone or alone or was it With me, yeah. Okay. >> And John. And how long was the last time >> What is that on his stomach? That's It What? Holy [ __ ] Why does it look like that? He was restrained in like That's what it looked to me. What happened? Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Yeah, yeah, what happened? [ __ ] up. That's what I'm [ __ ] up in the car. [ __ ] up in the car seat. He was in the car. Can you come over this way, all right? Can you call 911 and get the last car up here? Oh man. Okay. So place that piece in there. Can you run me down? So I can't breathe. Just hold on. Just Have a seat. Have a seat. Have a seat. Have a seat. I need a minute. His dad just died. Uh We just I just They just died. >> Dad just died a month ago. I I need >> The child's father? Yes. Okay. He can't be the one though, but From the start, baby Grayson never stood much of a chance. His father overdosed just 10 days after his birth, leaving Andrea, already deep in her addiction, alone with the helpless infant. That afternoon, she'd allegedly propped a bottle in his car seat so he could feed himself. Grayson's grandfather begged Andrea repeatedly to let him take the baby as recently as that very morning, but every time she said no. So there's no other health complications or anything like that, right? No. I just got this slow breathing as it is. Slow breathing? Just breathe. Just breathe. Just relax. Just breathe. He just took the dad a month ago a week ago. Were you the only person inside of the U-Haul? Yes. Hands on. No one was in there uh uh Uh John is like um Where was he at? He uh we I just went to Morning Sun. When you pulled over here, it was it was inside of the U-Haul? 22 I was Yes, I pulled over, yeah. And I went to No. Hold on. No. No. Just breathe. No. John wasn't here. Just a minute. So it was JUST YOU? >> OVER JUST TO CHECK ON THE BABY and we were going to go with my dad to the um hotel. We're going to We're going to go back over here. Me? Yeah. Can I listen? No. Just We're just having you >> Can I watch my baby? This is the last moment I'm going >> to the station. This is the last moment I'm going to see my baby though. >> go. We got to go to the station. I'll I'll make sure you see your kid. You'll see your kid. Okay. Do you have any any weapons or anything? I don't know. Okay. Hold on one second. Okay. Uh Just have a seat for me, all right? I don't want to sit back in a hot car right now while my son's in The AC's on, ma'am. Just have a seat. Have a seat. Wow. I don't know. While paramedics and officers worked the scene, Officer Pressed guided Andrea toward his patrol car, a simple task she seemed incapable of understanding. Officer Pressed proceeded by documenting the scene. At first, the case seemed tragically straightforward, an infant who succumbed to hyperthermia and dehydration after being left in a hot vehicle. But when the autopsy results arrived, they revealed something that made seasoned investigators blood run cold. Baby Grayson had lethal levels of pain in his system. Take one more car up here for 1013. 241 on the way. What type of Is this a Is this a Silverado, right? This is, yeah. Okay. I don't see We need tape up. Yeah, we do. Do you have any extra? If you've got extra, grab it. Do you have mom and baby's information? No, she's in my car, though. We'll We'll grab that in a second. Try 74 on the air. Push to start on the U-Haul. Say what? >> Push to start on the U-Haul. The kid So, the son said that he's like, "I got in there and it's still running in the middle of the street." He goes, "I just pulled it over to the side and pushed the button." So, the key should either still be in there or somewhere around here. Okay. So All right. Yeah. Did you guys get the information for kid and mom already or not? I got some. I got you. So, I don't know if you can read Pressed's handwriting. Grayson I got that. Grayson Lunsford, and then uh mom is Andrea Lunsford. I got you. I'll run this. So, you don't want the the kid in there? Or The the Yeah, this. The car. The side view of the car then up to the The up to the house. Okay, so you just Okay. That makes sense. Like those Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. It sounded like you were wanting to No, okay. Up to the side view of this car. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Hope you don't mind. Not at all. What only made things more sickening was that Andrea was no stranger to law enforcement. She had previously faced charges [music] of DUI, shoplifting, assault and battery. Officers at the scene gathered to get the car towed, which would later unfold additional unsettling findings, including a small bag of cocaine placed on the seat. I want her taken down to the station. Okay. I'll back my car up so you can get her >> down there. Okay. She needs to get down to the station. Um I just requested a tow truck here. No, I already called for a rotation tow. And I asked for another officer and I guess I didn't get one. Okay, if you're staying here I got I got her in my car. >> Put your leg in, kiddo. You got Yeah. I'll put your foot all the way. Andrea was transported to the police station on initial charges of endangerment, but she was so impaired that detectives couldn't even attempt to question her. All right. Step out for me. You're going to come with me up when we get upstairs, okay? Ow. Relax. Relax. Relax. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Stop Stop twisting your wrist. Relax. Now, just stop. There you go. Face Face that wall. You're good. Okay. Face this wall here. Nope. Right here. Right there. Face that wall. All right. sit here. All right, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on. One second, all right? All right, sit right there. Actually, can you kick your shoes off real quick? Get these handcuffs off, too. Nope, nope, nope, hold on. Nope. I'm sorry. Nope. Stop moving. Nope, just stop moving. Stop moving. Do I need to hold that? Okay. Do you have anything else on you? I don't know. Anything to stick me, poke me, stab me, anything like that? Any Any contraband, anything like that? Okay, face the wall again. All right, check her. Officers postponed the interrogation. Days later, the autopsy report delivered its devastating verdict. The presence and quantity of cocaine in the baby's system were significant enough to conclude that cocaine intoxication was the immediate cause of death. Officers upgraded the charges to first-degree murder, and then came another detail that made everything even harder to sit with. Two years before Grayson was born, Andrea had already lost custody of another child. Grayson's case remains ongoing, and Andrea Lunsford now faces up to 100 years in prison.