A contracted employee of the state’s Department of Human Resources left a three-year-old kid in a hot automobile for hours before he died.

On Tuesday, June 22, Bessemer resident Ke’Torrius “KJ” Starkes Jr. was discovered unconscious inside a car parked outside a residence on Pine Tree Drive in Birmingham.

KJ was in the automobile from around 12:3 PM to 5:30 PM, Birmingham police said, according to PEOPLE. Continues…