Teh One Who Knocks
06-15-2020, 09:59 AM
FOX 23 Staff
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A Tulsa, Okla., man was arrested Saturday after police say he left his two children inside a locked truck for five hours.
Dustin Lee Dennis, 31, is facing two counts of second-degree murder after his children, who were both under the age of five, were pronounced dead at his home, according to an arrest report.
Dennis told police he drove to QuikTrip with his children around noon and then returned to his home in the 1700 block of East 61st Street South, according to an arrest report.
A family member identified the children Sunday as Teagan, 4, and Ryan, 3, Dennis.
Dennis then fell asleep for four to five hours and when he woke up, he couldn’t find his children, police said.
Dennis told police he found his children in the floorboard of the truck and then moved the children to the living room where paramedics pronounced the children dead, according to an arrest report.
The cause of the children’s death was not immediately released.
A neighbor had video of Dennis leaving, then locking his truck and going inside without getting the children out, police said.
“The children had not been checked on for nearly five hours during the time they were locked inside vehicle," an arrest report states.
Saturday’s high temperature in Tulsa reached the low 90’s, according to the National Weather Service.
Within minutes of being left inside a hot car, a child can begin to suffer the life-threatening symptoms of heatstroke, according to kidsandcars.org. The inside of a vehicle acts like a greenhouse trapping in heat causing the temperature inside to rise very quickly.
Dennis is currently in the Tulsa County jail. A $1 million bond was issued Saturday but as of Sunday, bond has been decreased to $750,000, according to jail records.
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A Tulsa, Okla., man was arrested Saturday after police say he left his two children inside a locked truck for five hours.
Dustin Lee Dennis, 31, is facing two counts of second-degree murder after his children, who were both under the age of five, were pronounced dead at his home, according to an arrest report.
Dennis told police he drove to QuikTrip with his children around noon and then returned to his home in the 1700 block of East 61st Street South, according to an arrest report.
A family member identified the children Sunday as Teagan, 4, and Ryan, 3, Dennis.
Dennis then fell asleep for four to five hours and when he woke up, he couldn’t find his children, police said.
Dennis told police he found his children in the floorboard of the truck and then moved the children to the living room where paramedics pronounced the children dead, according to an arrest report.
The cause of the children’s death was not immediately released.
A neighbor had video of Dennis leaving, then locking his truck and going inside without getting the children out, police said.
“The children had not been checked on for nearly five hours during the time they were locked inside vehicle," an arrest report states.
Saturday’s high temperature in Tulsa reached the low 90’s, according to the National Weather Service.
Within minutes of being left inside a hot car, a child can begin to suffer the life-threatening symptoms of heatstroke, according to kidsandcars.org. The inside of a vehicle acts like a greenhouse trapping in heat causing the temperature inside to rise very quickly.
Dennis is currently in the Tulsa County jail. A $1 million bond was issued Saturday but as of Sunday, bond has been decreased to $750,000, according to jail records.