Child found dead inside hot car in Los Angeles identified as 4-year-old girl

VALLEY VILLAGE, LOS ANGELES () — The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner has identified the young girl found dead inside a hot car in Valley Village.

Police and firefighters responded around 3:40 p.m. Tuesday to a neighborhood near McCormick Street and Bluebell Avenue after a medical emergency call.

Los Angeles police Capt. Warner Castillo said an unresponsive child was found in a vehicle. LAFD personnel pronounced the child dead at the scene.

The medical examiner on Wednesday identified the child as 4-year-old Adina Nevo.

A cause of death was deferred and her place of death was listed as vehicle, according to the medical examiner’s report.

The death has shaken the devout Jewish neighborhood, where neighbors and families are deeply interconnected.

At least two neighbors say a father had driven the neighborhood carpool in the morning and didn’t realize a young girl never got out of the vehicle.

The abused child unit within the LAPD’s Juvenile Division is investigating what Castillo said was a “possible homicide.” LAPD said no one is currently in custody.

Police continue to interview witnesses as they work to establish a timeline and determine the circumstances that led to the child’s death.

It’s unclear how long the child was inside the vehicle. Tuesday’s temperatures in the San Fernando Valley reached into the upper 80s.