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Coroner: Columbia infant left in car died from the heat
Posted: 06.19.2011 at 8:48 PM Updated: 06.20.2011 at 4:05 PM
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Columbia police are investigating whether a 9-month-old baby boy was intentionally left in a hot car outside his home Sunday.   / Adam Pinsker
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The Richland County coroner says an autopsy shows an infant left unattended in a hot car outside a Columbia apartment complex Sunday afternoon died from exposure to the heat. Columbia Police Chief Randy Scott says the child's father left him in the car for at least three hours.

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