York County Coroner: Rock Hill boy, 2, died after found in car outside apartment

Police in Rock Hill and a South Carolina child fatality task force are investigating the death of a 2-year-old boy who died Sunday after being found in a car outside his family’s apartment.

The child was found “unresponsive” around 4:40 p.m. Sunday outside an apartment on Glenarden Drive, police said.

Lamartray Adams Jr. was inside a car in the parking lot of The Glens apartments when found, said Sabrina Gast, York County coroner.

Gast has not yet issued a cause or manner of death.

The child died in an ambulance on the way to Piedmont Medical Center hospital, Gast said.

Rock Hill Police Department Lt. Michael Chavis said detectives with the police department are investigating, but police have not said how the child died.

Few details about the incident have been released. South Carolina’s State Law Enforcement Division agents with the child fatality department are assisting with the investigation, said Kathryn Richardson, a spokesperson for SLED.

Police have so far declined to comment on the child being found in the car.

No charges have been filed in the case.

Johnny Glenn, a neighbor, said that when he came home from work Sunday afternoon the parking lot outside his building was filled with police cars and people crying.

“There were a lot of people out here upset,” Glenn said.

Glenn expressed his concern for the child and the family.

The apartment is in the Southland Park neighborhood at Rock Hill’s southern edge, off S.C. 901.

Officials at The Glens apartments confirmed to The Herald Monday that they had been told of the child’s death Sunday, but did not have any more information, and directed questions to the corporate office.

The Glens is operated by ALCO management, a Memphis, Tenn.-based property management company, according to the ALCO Web site.

Officers found an adult who came running out of the building into the parking lot carrying the child, according to a police department incident report.

The first officer on scene put the child into the back of the police car and started CPR, police said.

EMS workers from Piedmont Medical Center arrived and transported the child, Chavis said.

This story was originally published August 27, 2018 at 9:24 AM.