The mother of a 5-year-old boy who died after being left in a hot car June 26, 2025 was indicted earlier this month on charges of involuntary manslaughter (a first-degree felony) and endangering children and reckless homicide (both third-degree felonies), according to the indictment in Richland County Common Pleas Court.
The Richland County grand jury found that Kiarra Brock, 31, of Mansfield, caused the death of the child, Kyrie Brown.
Brock was arraigned Feb. 10 and she remains in the Richland County Jail on a $75,000 cash and surety plus personal recognizance bond. Electronic monitoring was ordered, along with no unsupervised contact with minor children.
Last summer, Mansfield police released the name of the child who died after being left in a hot car, as well as some details of the case.
When police arrived at 91 Marion Ave. around 3:15 p.m. June 26, they found the boy in the arms of his mother, according to the news release. Kyrie was unresponsive and life-saving measures were immediately started by both police and fire personnel.
He was transported to a local hospital, where he was later pronounced dead. A preliminary investigation indicated the child had been left unattended in the mother’s vehicle for an extended period of time.The Mansfield Police Department’s Major Crimes Unit actively investigated the incident with the Richland County Prosecutor’s Office and Richland County Children Services.
Police dispatch received a frantic 911 call from an unidentified woman who was screaming. She could be heard yelling, “Oh, my God,” numerous times, the News Journal reported earlier. An unidentified man took the phone.
“The baby is not moving, blue lips,” a witness told the dispatcher.
According to the autopsy report, the cause of death is hyperthermia and the death was ruled an accident.
The decedent’s mother reported that she was late for work that morning and dropped off her 10-month-old child at daycare first. The autopsy report noted she usually dropped off her Kyrie first, but forgot. She went to work at 55 Wood St. and the boy was in the back seat of the vehicle from 6 a.m. until she came out for a break at 3 p.m. He was lying down at the rear of the vehicle.
She called 911 and a bystander pulled him out of the car and poured water on him. An emergency squad transported him to the emergency room, according to the report.
At the emergency room, his temperature was 107.8 degrees, according to the autopsy results, which the News Journal obtained via public records request.
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Reporting by Lou Whitmire, Mansfield News Journal / Mansfield News Journal
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