Dramatic video shows Georgia cops breaking window to rescue kids from scorching car
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Heartbreaking body-cam footage shows authorities in Georgia smashing a car window to save two children, who were soaked with sweat after being left alone for 41 minutes.
Cobb County deputies responded to 911 calls about two young children crying inside a parked vehicle a mall in Atlanta.
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“I am standing outside of the Dick’s (Sporting Goods) at Cumberland Mall and there are two children in a car by themselves, small kids crying,” the caller is heard in a video released by police.
“The windows are cracked, but I don’t think that’s right. We just came out of Dick’s and I heard kids crying,” the caller continued, noting that it was “a little boy and a little girl.”
Body-cam footage shows police racing to the parking lot, where a few bystanders are standing around the car.
The deputies then smash the driver’s side window before reaching around to unlock the back door.
“Hey, kiddies,” one deputy can be heard saying to the children.
“Hey, buddy, it’s OK, he says to the boy, who is sitting buckled in while a younger girl sat in a booster seat next to him.
“It’s OK, baby,” the officer is heard saying again in a soothing voice before reaching to pick him up.
“Ooooh, you’re hot,” he says as he hoists the boy up and out of the car, as one shopper offered some water to the children.
Another officer is seen getting the little girl out of the car.
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According to the department, the temperature inside the locked car reached 117 degrees Fahrenheit (47 Celsius).
About 41 minutes after entering the mall, the car’s driver, identified as J’quawn Dixon, returned to the vehicle and was immediately taken into custody.
He allegedly left the kids alone inside the vehicle while he went shopping, according to arrest records cited by the outlets.
The 27-year-old Snellville man was charged with two counts of second-degree cruelty to children for what investigators described as causing “cruel or excessive physical or mental pain,” according to an arrest warrant obtained by FOX affiliate WAGA-TV in Atlanta.
Dixon was booked into the Cobb County Jail and released the next day after posting a $10,000 bond.
The children were checked by EMS at the scene and did not require hospitalization, according to police.
“A big THANK YOU to the concerned citizens who called 911. Your quick action is the reason these kids are safe today,” the police department wrote on social media.
They added: “You saw something and did something, and that made all the difference.”
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