A Georgia mother is facing murder charges after her one year old daughter died in a hot car, according to police and the Atlanta Journal Constitution.
Police say the woman, Dijanelle, 25, parked at a shopping center in the Tucker area around 10 a.m. for a hair appointment and left the child in the back seat. According to the Atlanta Journal Constitution, she left the salon around 4 p.m. Police say the car had shut off after running for hours, and she asked a man at the salon for help getting it started.
Investigators say she later drove to Emory University Hospital, arriving around 4:54 p.m., and called 911 to say she had experienced a seizure of some kind. Officers found her daughter unresponsive and said the child had been dead for some period of time. Police also said she searched online for signs of seizures during that window.
According to police, a medical examiner and surveillance footage did not match the account she gave, and investigators say the child died earlier, on June 15. Police say she left the area before she could be arrested in early July and turned herself in on Monday.
She has been charged with second degree murder, child cruelty and concealing the death of a child, and is being held without bond. These are allegations, and she is presumed innocent. Baller Alert did not find a public statement from her at the time of this report.
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