CLOSE Police Chief Randall Brackins said he did not know yet whether charges will be brought up in the case of the two-year-old boy who died after being left in a hot car overnight. Rachel Ohm/ News Sentinel. 
 
 416 Laurel Avenue (Photo: Rachel Ohm / USA TODAY NETWORK - Tennessee) 
 
 GATLINBURG — The home where police found a 2-year-old child dead after being left in a vehicle overnight Thursday belongs to Jerry Kirkman, mayor of Westmoreland, Tenn. 
 
 A neighbor who saw police at the scene on Friday evening identified the house as 416 Laurel Ave. According to the Sevier County Property Assessor's Office, that house is owned by Kirkman, who lists a Westmoreland mailing address. 
 
 Police found the child dead after responding 1:57 p.m. Friday to a report of a child left in a vehicle overnight on Laurel Avenue, according to a police news release. 
 
 The Gatlinburg Police Department and the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation both declined on Tuesday to release the incident report to the USA TODAY NETWORK - Tennessee, citing the ongoing investigation. 
 
 Authorities haven't released information in the case such as the identity or gender of the child, the address where the child was found, how long the child was in the vehicle, and whether anyone was taken into custody. 
 
 Gatlinburg Police Chief Randall Brackins didn't return calls on Tuesday. 
 
 Kirkman, the mayor of the Sumner County town with a population of about 2,200, didn't respond to multiple requests for comment. 
 
 CLOSE The parents of a 2-year-old boy who died after being left in a vehicle overnight were arrested Monday on felony murder charges. Wochit 
 
 According to the National Weather Service in Morristown, the temperature in Gatlinburg reached an estimated high of 89 degrees on Thursday and 88 on Friday. 
 
 No one answered the door at 416 Laurel Ave. on Tuesday afternoon. The house was well-kept and blinds blocked all the windows. Outside, children’s toys, including a toy lawnmower and an inflatable turtle, lay in the yard. 
 
 Matthew McGhee and Chris Box, who were working at a nearby house on Red Bud Lane, said they saw first responders and police on Laurel Avenue on Friday afternoon. 
 
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 Box said he heard about the child’s death on the news but it didn’t dawn on him until he was approached by a reporter Tuesday that it had happened just a few houses away from where he has been working the past few days. 
 
 “It’s really disheartening,” Box said. “I have a 7-month-old son and I don’t know how you forget a child in the car. I just can’t fathom it.” 
 
 The two, who work for Home Services of the Smokies, said they didn’t know who lived in the house or what exactly happened. 
 
 “It’s sad,” said Box. “You think about what maybe you could have done if you had driven by that way.” 
 
 Follow details as they develop online and in Wednesday's News Sentinel. 
 
 Read or Share this story: http://knoxne.ws/2uGuYVT ||||| DeKalb County police say a 25-year-old mother was getting her hair done for six hours as her baby slowly died in a hot car. 
 
 Dijanelle Fowler is charged with second degree murder, child cruelty and concealing the June 15 death of Skylar Fowler, 1, according to warrants obtained by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The child was found dead in an Emory University Hospital parking deck when the mother went there and dialed 911. 
 
 Police said they don’t believe Fowler intended to harm the child. She left the air conditioning running, but when she finally emerged the car had shut off, according to DeKalb police. 
 
 The warrants suggest the case against Fowler was partly built by security camera footage. 
 
 Fowler had a hair appointment in the Northlake Tower Festival Shopping Center in the Tucker area at 10 a.m. Footage shows her enter at 10:06 a.m. and later emerge at 4 p.m., the warrants say. 
 
 Witnesses confirmed she never left the salon. 
 
 In the parking lot, Fowler couldn’t start the car and got a man at the hair dresser’s to assist. 
 
 The good Samaritan didn’t see the baby because, police believe, Fowler covered her up with clothes that were in the car or hid her in some other way. 
 
 Dijanelle Fowler (DeKalb jail) 
 
 “Between 4 and 4:54 (p.m.) she texted the child’s godfather that she was going to go to an urgent care for headaches,” a detective wrote. “(Fowler) also Googled about signs of seizures.” 
 
 She arrived at Emory at 4:54 p.m., soon dialing 911. 
 
 Police allege Fowler didn’t mention the child and instead said that she herself was “having a seizure of some kind.” 
 
 When officers arrived, Skylar was unresponsive in the back seat. 
 
 The medical examiner’s office believes she had been dead for “some period of time,” the detective wrote. 
 
 The obituary listed her as a Charleston, South Carolina, resident. 
 
 Skylar leaves “precious memories” to her parents, Louis R. Williams, II, and Fowler, it said. 
 
 The mother, who was treated and released from the hospital after her daughter’s death, was arrested Monday night. She has no bond. 
 
 The case is sure to bring to mind that of Cooper Harris, who died on June 18, 2014, nearly three years to the day from Skylar, in a hot car in Cobb County. Father Justin Ross Harris was convicted of murder after a sensational trial detailing his sordid sexual exploits and what prosecutors called his desire for a child-free life. 
 
 In that case, the jury found malice. In Fowler’s police have only charged her with second degree murder, which doesn’t require malice. 
 
 For more on the case, read here. 
 
 Like DeKalb County News Now on Facebook | Follow on Twitter and Instagram ||||| (Reuters) - A 25-year-old South Carolina woman was in jail on Tuesday on a murder charge for the death of her 13-month-old daughter, who police said she left in a car last month while she went to a hair salon in suburban Atlanta. 
 
 DiJanelle Fowler is shown in this DeKalb County Police photo released in DeKalb County, Georgia, U.S., July 18, 2017. Courtesy DeKalb County Police/Handout via REUTERS 
 
 The mother, DiJanelle Fowler, kept the car running with the air conditioning on, but the car’s battery died while she was inside the beauty shop in Tucker, Georgia, on June 15, said DeKalb County Police spokeswoman Shiera Campbell. 
 
 Police believe Skylar Fowler was dead by the time her mother returned to the car a few hours later, Campbell said. 
 
 “Instead of calling 911, she called roadside assistance to get her battery jumped,” Campbell said in a phone interview. 
 
 Fowler concealed the baby from the person who helped restart her car, then went to a hospital and called 911, Campbell said. 
 
 The mother told police she herself had passed out from some sort of medical condition, Campbell said. But the child’s condition indicated she had died sooner than the time Fowler suggested, the police spokeswoman said. 
 
 The high temperature in DeKalb County that day was 92 degrees Fahrenheit at 5 p.m., according to the National Weather Service. 
 
 Twenty-three U.S. children have died so far this year after being left in hot cars, up from 20 through mid-July in 2016, according to the nonprofit KidsAndCars.org, which tracks such deaths. 
 
 In all, 39 children died in hot cars in 2016. The highest annual number was recorded in 2010, when 49 children died, said Janette Fennell, founder and president of the KidsAndCars.org. 
 
 Children ages 3 and younger account for 87 percent of the hot-car deaths the group has tracked, she said. 
 
 Fowler left the Atlanta area after her daughter’s death. She was arrested late on Monday after turning herself in to DeKalb County Police, who had been searching for her, Campbell said. 
 
 In addition to the second-degree murder charge, she also is charged with second-degree cruelty to children and concealing a death, jail records show. Court records did not show whether Fowler had hired a lawyer.
– Two cases of youngsters losing their lives in hot cars are making headlines this week. Skylar Fowler, 1, became the first child to die in a hot car in Georgia this year in a June 15 incident that's emerging following mother Dijanelle Fowler's Monday arrest. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports she is charged with second-degree murder, child cruelty, and concealing the death of her daughter, whom cops say was left in Fowler's car for six hours while she got her hair done. DeKalb County police believe the death was accidental; the 25-year-old left the car running with air conditioning on, but at some point between her 10am appointment and 4pm return to the car, the car died. WXIA reports video and witness statements indicate Fowler didn't leave the salon at any point during that six-hour period. Reuters quotes a police rep who says Fowler hid the baby in some manner and called roadside assistance for help in restarting her car; other reports suggest someone from the salon helped her jump her battery. Fowler then drove to Emory University Hospital, where she parked, called 911, and said she herself was suffering from some kind of seizure. Skylar was found by the responding team. The Knoxville News Sentinel has a more vague report of a child found dead around 2pm Friday in Gatlinburg, Tenn., following a report of a child being left in a car overnight. A neighbor confirmed the home address, and a search of records revealed it belongs to Jerry Kirkman, mayor of Westmoreland, Tenn. But the Gatlinburg Police Department has not yet confirmed that or released any details about the child's age, identity, or the circumstances.