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Authorities arrested a 36-year-old man late Tuesday after a 6-month-old baby was found dead in the parking lot of Rockwall Heath High School.
Officers with the Heath Department of Public Safety responded to the school at about 4:40 p.m. Tuesday after receiving calls about an unconscious infant in a vehicle.
The baby girl was dead when police arrived. She was left unattended in a car seat in the vehicle for eight hours, according to an arrest-warrant affidavit obtained by The Dallas Morning News on Wednesday.
The affidavit said when Rockwall County EMS medics took the child’s temperature, it was 107 degrees. They didn’t provide treatment to the child because she was “obviously deceased.”
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Officers arrested 36-year-old Camerone Leichman, who police say had recently become a caregiver for the 6-month-old. According to a news release from Rockwall police, Leichman failed to drop the child off at a local day care after taking his partner to work at Rockwall Heath High School.
The child was left inside the vehicle for several hours while parked at their home in the 100 block of Sunfish Road. When Leichman returned to pick up his partner from the school, the child was found unresponsive in the back seat.
Leichman was booked into the Rockwall County Detention Center and faces charges of injury to a child, a second-degree felony. Bail has not yet been set.
Matt is a breaking news reporter. He is a graduate of Baylor University and is a native of San Antonio. When not writing, he enjoys listening to blues and folk music and playing it on the guitar. Previously, Matt has written for the Waco Tribune-Herald.
Sarah Bahari is a trending news reporter. She previously worked as a writer for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, where she covered a bit of everything. She is a graduate of Kansas State University.
Zacharia Washington is a breaking news reporter with The Dallas Morning News. A graduate of Huston-Tillotson University and The University of Texas at Austin, Zacharia lived in Austin for several years before coming back to Dallas, her hometown, in 2024. She previously worked as a local government reporter for Community Impact.
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