A 7-year-old boy died after he obtained his head caught in a automobile window whereas his drugged-up mother was “handed out” within the entrance seat, in accordance with cops who charged her with homicide.
Mazi Simmons was discovered unconscious and never respiratory together with his head hanging out of the backseat window of a automobile parked exterior of an Atlanta dwelling in April, in accordance with a warrant obtained by Folks Journal.
His mom, Kandice Grace, 32, was “handed out within the driver’s seat,” with two of her different youngsters additionally within the automobile, in accordance with the doc.
The mother was arrested on Monday and charged with second-degree homicide and second-degree cruelty to youngsters. A blood and urine take a look at was constructive for opioids and THC, in accordance with the warrant.
A witness instructed police that Grace had stopped by his dwelling round 10 p.m. the evening earlier than, and determined to go away the children within the automobile as a result of she didn’t need them to return inside. She left shortly afterward, in accordance with police.
The subsequent morning, the witness noticed Grace’s car within the parking zone — together with her younger son’s head “hanging out of the window,” the warrant states.
“He started banging on the automobile to get up Ms. Grace,” police mentioned. Her unconscious son was rushed to the hospital, the place he was pronounced useless.
Police discovered Grace at a neighbor’s home together with her youngest little one. “Investigators tried to talk to Ms. Grace, nevertheless she saved passing out whereas sitting up and holding her little one,” the warrant alleges.
The mother is being held on the Fulton County jail.
