Inset: Keyner Roman Vazquez De Leon (Miami-Dade Corrections). Background: The home in Homestead, Florida, where Vazquez De Leon allegedly left a toddler in a hot car (WTVJ).
A Florida man who dropped off a toddler girl six days a week at a babysitter's home forgot to do so on Saturday and found her dead eight hours later, after her mother called asking where she was, cops said.
Keyner Roman Vazquez De Leon, 22, stands accused of aggravated manslaughter, leaving a child in a vehicle for more than six hours and child neglect with great bodily harm.
According to a probable cause arrest affidavit, deputies with the Miami-Dade Sheriff's Office responded to a home in the 1200 block of NW 9th Court for an unresponsive child. Paramedics tried to save the girl, but she was pronounced dead at the scene.
Cops learned that Vazquez De Leon's routine from Monday to Saturday was to pick up two people at their homes: the girl, and a friend of his. He would drop the girl off at her babysitter's home and his friend at work.
On Saturday, Vazquez De Leon picked up the girl around 6:45 a.m. and drove to the friend's home and picked him up, the affidavit said. After dropping off the man at work, the defendant returned home, cops wrote.
Around 9 a.m., he apparently began washing cars outside his home. Deputies say that what Vazquez De Leon didn't realize at the time is that he never dropped the girl off — and she remained in the car.
The girl's mom called around 3 p.m. to ask about her daughter's whereabouts. That's when Vazquez De Leon allegedly realized that he never dropped the girl off with the babysitter.
He rushed to the car and found the girl unresponsive in her car seat. He carried the girl inside and called 911.
The affidavit said the suspect and victim are not related, but did not expand on their relationship. Per Weather Underground, the temperature on Saturday afternoon was in the mid-80s.
Local NBC affiliate WTVJ spoke with neighbors who knew Vazquez De Leon took the girl to the babysitter.
"How he could forget? I guess he had too many things going on and he forgot," one neighbor said.
Cops arrested Vazquez De Leon and took him to the Miami-Dade County Jail, where he remains without bond.