Baby dies in hot car months after 16-month-old brother drowns in grandmother's house
Kaila Schock still couldn't believe that she would lose her kids too soon and more so, while they were under the care of her own mother.
Kaila is the mother of seven-month-old Uriel and 16-month-old Ezra, who both died less than a year apart in the house of her mom, Tracey Nix, in Hardee County in Florida, USA.
The most recent incident of the two involved the infant Uriel, who Kaila left to her mom on November 22, as she had to get her hair done that day.
The tragedy began when Nix, 65, drove home from lunch with her friends that day. and "just forgot" her granddaughter in the back seat of an SUV parked in her yard, with the windows rolled up.
According to the Hardee County Sheriff's Office complaint affidavit, the grandmother "all of a sudden" remembered that the infant was left inside the Lexus vehicle in the afternoon, when her grandsons arrived at her residence.
The city's heat index that day reached 32C, according to a 7 News report.
The infant was immediately given CPR by Nix's husband, Nun Ney Nix.
Kaila received the news of her daughter's sudden demise through a representative of the Hardee County Sheriff’s Office who showed up at her house.
Speaking to ABC Action News I-Team, the mother of two recalled the rep saying, "Your baby is dead," to which she replied, "I'm sorry, what? I know Ezra's dead. Why are you here, like what—what is this?"
"No Kaila, your baby, is dead," he confirmed.
The couple then identified their daughter at the hospital, with Kaila's husband, Drew Schock, left trying to grasp what just happened.
“To think of the last moments of her life as a mother is gut-wrenching,” Kaila told the outlet.
“And that it actually just f****** happened twice. In our lifetime,” Drew added.
The incident has devasted the couple, leaving Kyla in a state of disbelief that it was her own mother's actions that led to all this.
“It’s really difficult to know that my mum is the one that, you know, broke his (Drew's) heart,” Kaila said. “You know, my mum.”
Losing Ezra in 2021
Uriel's untimely demise came almost a year since her older brother Ezra passed away in December 2021. He drowned in a pond near her grandmother's house while she was asleep.
Drew told I-Team that Kaila's father broke the news to him via phone call three days before Christmas that year.
“He goes, ‘Something happened to Ezra’,” Drew recalled hearing Nun Ney tell him before he proceeded to call Kaila, who was six months pregnant at that time.
Kaila, for her part, drove to her parents' home as fast as she could, which consequently led her into a head-on collision with another vehicle.
She recalled, “All of my airbags went off, I don’t remember how I got out, but I got out and started running to my parent’s house and at this point, I don’t have shoes. I’m just running."
“That was my desperation to get to my son," she added.
During the investigation on her son's death, Kaila revealed that the doctor "withheld information" that would be "emotionally distressful" for her and her unborn child.
