Baltimore Police investigating after 1-year-old boy found dead in car

A 1-year-old boy was found dead in a car in Northwest Baltimore on Thursday, police said.

Officers were called to the 6200 block of Greenspring Avenue around 1:40 p.m. after a parent discovered their child unconscious in their Honda van, Niki Fennoy, a spokesperson for the Baltimore Police Department, said in an email.

Despite medics’ efforts, the boy was pronounced dead on the scene, officials said. Baltimore Police are investigating the death as “questionable,” Fennoy said.

The child had been left in the car, but officials did not share for how long. Fennoy said the boy’s body was brought to the chief medical examiner’s office to determine the cause of his death.

Stephanie Moore, a spokesperson for the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, said the case is pending.

Though officials have not linked the boy’s death to the high temperatures, Baltimore was under a Code Red extreme heat alert Thursday. Experts say the outside temperature doesn’t have to be extremely hot for a child in a vehicle to be affected by the heat.

Roughly three dozen children died in cars last year, according to the nonprofit Kids and Car Safety, two of which were in Maryland. In May 2025, a 2-year-old girl died after being in a parked car in the Wheaton-Glenmont area for hours. Just two months later, a 6-month-old died after being left in a vehicle in Belcamp.

There have been 19 heat-related deaths in Maryland so far this year, eight of which occurred during a heat wave the first week of July, according to the state Department of Health.