Officers Rescue Children From Hot Car

Oklahoma City police have released body camera footage showing an officer rescuing two children from a hot vehicle parked at Penn Square Mall.



Police show that just before noon May 27 police were called to the lower level of the parking garage after an individual found a young girl and boy sweating and crying inside a vehicle by themselves. Authorities found the windows in the vehicle to be partially rolled down but estimated the inside temperature to be around 105 degrees. The officer noted that the children's cheeks were red and their hair was wet from sweating.



The two children were taken to the hospital to be cleared. Police later discovered that the of the two children, 26-year-old Samantha Pitts of Enid, had taken the vehicle without the consent of its owner, her grandmother, and driven to Oklahoma City. Pitts was located the next day, May 28, and taken into custody on complaints of child abandonment and child neglect.



In the body camera footage, the officer can be seen attempting to calm the children down before placing them in the backseat of his cooler patrol car. Pitts was later located by authorities and arrested on the charges.