On May 23rd, 2022, firefighters and
police officers were dispatched to a
residence following reports of heavy
smoke. Upon gaining entry to the home,
emergency responders discovered an
unresponsive 8-year-old girl and
10-year-old boy with no parent present
at the scene. Do we know if anyone's
inside?
Oh, really?
Hey. Hey. I need a medic. Medic now.
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They need a medic. Medic. Medic.
Medic. Now get off the [ __ ] hydra.
Yeah. It's not
like [ __ ] is now.
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no more people inside. They don't know.
But nobody knows there's more people
inside. Okay.
You said find someone see what we need
to do and then tell them that Well, I'm
not opening. I'm Yeah, that's all I was
going to say. I was going to say we
should probably now I'm just going to
keep an eye on these people over here
and these people.
He said he doesn't really
know three to four kids that live here.
They only found one. Oh [ __ ] All
right. Oh, man. The smoke was heavy,
too.
He wasn't burnt. No, the smoke
inhalation. Yeah.
Yeah. I'm going to back up a little bit.
The parents were still nowhere to be
found, prompting officers to question
neighbors in an effort to identify who
lived at the residence.
Do you guys have any information on
people who live here? Yes, the adults.
It's one lady, but her usually have a
white car, but she's not here now. Okay.
Do you guys have a phone number for her?
No, that's not what we saying. We don't
have a phone number. You guys know
names? No names. Last names, anything
like that? No, she's an African lady.
Okay. Yeah. And she usually have two or
three kids there. That's what I'm
saying. The guy asked me, so two. I
don't know if you know. Okay. They
recently moved in here about a year ago.
About a year ago. Appreciate it, guys.
Thank you.
[Applause]
Okay.
Officers were eventually able to contact
the children's mother, who was at work
at the time. She arrived at the scene 20
minutes later.
41 41
41. Can you start the 56 and call 9 at
255 East Falls Avenue?
Okay, copy. I'll put you on the call.
Two children.
They're at the hospital. They're at the
hospital.
How many of your children were home?
Two. Two children were home, huh? We got
two. Just two. How old are they?
87.
87.
Down to the hospital, ma'am. How old are
your children?
We need to know how are there other kids
with figure out how
We're going to get your ride down. Okay.
We're going to take you down. We're
going to take you down.
Get you up here.
It's okay. Come on.
56
right now. Is anyone with the victim?
Uh, we're going to put you on the cop.
We're going to take it down. Car6.
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We're going to put her on. Okay. Ma'am,
do you want to take a seat over here on
the C? We'll take you out. Be safe. Come
on. We will. We're going. That's how
we're going to do it. You're driving
right now.
She's driving. So, somebody needs to
make sure we're handling now.
She's
moving.
Here's here's this. Is your phone in
there or is it in the car?
How many children in there? Two. How old
are they?
I don't have my phone. We need to know
how old the L is in your car. I'll get
your phone. Talk to him. Okay. Talk to
him. I'll get your phone.
I seen him down there. I'm gonna bring
the car up.
Ma'am, how many how many children do you
have?
Just the two. Eight and 10. There's no
other kids that weren't here. No other
kids that weren't here.
[Laughter]
Is it my fault? We're bringing it up
right now.
going to be the game plan. How's she
going to get out? That's really where
she I have no idea. We're saying that
ran out of the car. We were going to
park the car. I don't know. She doesn't
need to necessarily go to city. She
needs to go.
more. What's that? There are some guys
more.
[Applause]
Thank you, brother. Okay, I'll take the
keys. She's not going to have the tax.
Oh, okay. That makes sense. She doesn't
want to go host. She will be cuz I think
this is coming here. Medwagon probably.
Hey, we're we're just going to go ask
Chief if he wants us down. She wants to
call. I bet that's probably Is there
anybody you like us to call her? Is
there anybody you want us to call?
I don't know if you guys have one or two
riding the back with us. I'm sure that's
going to be
If not, we can transport, right?
No.
We're going to get you on the way to
Children's Hospital. If you get up on
that cop, they're going to take you
right over. Okay. We'll help you
up 1027.
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police and get out of here if you want.
You guys want to follow down?
Do you guys want someone to ride with?
I'm going to drive her car down
following. We could probably arrange for
somebody to do with you guys if you guys
want it. Okay. Okay. All right. Very
well.
The mother was transported to the
hospital where she received the
devastating news. Both her son and
daughter had succumbed to their injuries
and were pronounced dead in the
emergency room. Investigators later
discovered that she had called the
children out of school that day, locked
them inside the home, and left them
alone for over 9 hours while she went to
work. Both children had severe
developmental disabilities and lacked
the cognitive and motor skills necessary
to escape the house in an emergency. A
few days after the tragedy, the mother
was charged with two counts of reckless
homicide and two counts of child
endangerment. However, the reckless
homicide charges were later dropped. She
ultimately pleaded guilty to involuntary
manslaughter and child endangerment and
was sentenced to 6 to9 years in prison.
The fire was determined to have
originated in the living room caused by
a power strip overloaded with multiple
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