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A Mississippi woman was arrested on Monday after two of her
three children drowned in her locked vehicle over the weekend
while she was in a nearby store, police said.
Jenea Payne, 25, was at a Stop&Shop in Leland, a city roughly 85
miles northwest of Jackson, while her three young children, ages
1 to 4, were inside her Nissan Pathfinder, the Leland Police
Department wrote on Facebook.
Payne told investigators that when she exited the store on
Saturday, she saw her vehicle was gone and had rolled into Deer
Creek.
Police officers and firefighters “jumped into the creek and
attempted to burst the windows out of the vehicle in order to
get the kids out.”
First responders were only able to rescue one child from the
vehicle, and the other two floated away down the creek in the
locked SUV, according to police.
A rescue dive team found the vehicle with the children still
inside hours later.
Steve Smith, 4, and Rasheed Johnson, Jr., 1, were pronounced
dead by the Washington County coroner, officials said.
Marcus Davis, assistant chief of police, told the Clarion-Ledger
that investigators believe the 4-year-old put Payne’s keys in
the ignition, turned the vehicle on and put it in neutral before
it rolled off.
Payne was booked on Monday and charged with two counts of
manslaughter-culpable negligence and one count of child neglect,
the police department wrote. She was released on her own
recognizance after she made an initial court appearance.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/mississippi-mom-arrested-after-2-of-3- kids-drown-in-locked-vehicle-while-she-was-shopping-police-say
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