According to an official release by the Midland Police Department<\/a> on Monday, July 27, the officers were called to a home on East Pecan Avenue around 7:56 p.m. Sunday after reports of an unresponsive child locked inside a vehicle.<\/p>\n Investigators said Rodriguez’s family grew concerned after losing contact with him earlier that day, following a night in which he had reportedly been drinking. Relatives went to check on him and, after knocking with no answer, removed a window air conditioning unit to get inside the home.<\/p>\n Kyodo\/Newscom\/The Mega Agency<\/p>\n They found Rodriguez asleep and woke him around 8 p.m. Police said he had been asleep since roughly 11 a.m.<\/p>\n “The brother and sister-in-law were unable to locate the child inside the residence,” the release states.<\/p>\n However, the relatives went out to check for the toddler and found her inside a black Kia that was not running. They broke the car’s window to reach her and rushed her to Midland Memorial Hospital, but she did not survive.<\/p>\n According to Law&Crime<\/a>, Rodriguez remains held in the Midland County Jail without bond, and no court date has been set yet.<\/p>\n This story Texas Man Charged After Leaving Daughter Locked in Hot Car While He Slept Off Night of Drinking<\/a> first appeared on Globe<\/a>. Follow Globe<\/a> on <\/a>Yahoo<\/a> so you don’t miss what’s coming next.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Texas father is behind bars after his 2-year-old daughter was found inside a locked car outside their…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":391753,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[137988,28465,27,29,28,137989],"class_list":["post-391752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-lorenzo-elias-rodriguez","tag-midland-police-department","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-window-air-conditioning-unit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"<span](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/globe_458\/e12350c090a4c597d12093e87f491f0a.jpeg\"\/)
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