6-year-old found in car in Richmond later pronounced dead, possibly heat-related

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Richmond boy dies after being found in car

Richmond police are investigating the death of a child who was said to be missing on Friday and then found in a family car.

Richmond police are investigating the death of a child who was said to be missing on Friday.

Details are limited at this time, but police were called around 5:30 p.m. for a child missing in the 100 block of Douglas Street in Richmond.

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Officials say they later found the child in a family car, and he was taken to Oak Bend Hospital where he was pronounced dead.

The incident is still under investigation, but Richmond police say they are treating it as a heat-related death.