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A 23-year-old father has been arrested after a 3-year-old child died from being left unattended inside a hot car.

Smyrna Police officers were called to a home just before 5 p.m. Thursday.

Smyrna's Police Chief identified the child who died as Daylin Palmer. First responders found him unresponsive and tried to save him, but they were unsuccessful.

According to Smyrna Police officials, the child likely died from heat exposure. It is believed he was left in the car for two hours, police said.

According to Rutherford County Jail officials, 23-year-old Dylan Levesque was booked overnight on charges of aggravated child abuse and neglect in connection with the case. Smyrna's Police Chief said investigators began looking into the circumstances of how the child was left in the vehicle, which led to the arrest. His bond was set at $50,000.

In addition to these most recent charges, Levesque has a rather lengthy criminal history, having been convicted other charges in the past. These include possession of a schedule VI drug, resisting arrest, shooting a gun into a home and assault of a police officer.
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What a handsome little fella Daylin was.

Take this knob and build a metal box around him.
Weld it shut with two air holes in the top.
Once the sound stops, cut the box open with a torch and feed his slow roasted corpse to hogs.
 
Nov 20, 2019
The father who left his son in a hot car resulting in the child's death has been indicted by a Rutherford County grand jury on a first-degree murder charge.

Court records show that Dylan Levesque, 23, was indicted on first-degree murder and aggravated child abuse, neglect and endangerment charges. In July, Levesque was arrested after Smyrna police said the man left his 3-year-old son, Daylin Palmer, in a hot car for hours.

Autopsy results show that the child's body temperature was over 107 degrees by the time emergency service workers reached him, at least four hours after he was first left in the car while temperatures soared to 95 degrees.
The autopsy summary says that Levesque picked his son up midday on July 11 and took him to his Smyrna home on Windbirch Trail. When the grandmother arrived home hours later, she asked where Palmer was. Levesque immediately ran to his car where his son was found unresponsive.

The autopsy ruled Palmer's death, caused by hyperthermia due to his high body temperature, as an accident.

A friend of Levesque, told The Daily News Journal in July Daylin's death was "a tragic, awful accident" and that Levesque's mental health was in decline. Smyrna police reports show a history of calls to Levesque's home for disturbances, including gunshots after police said he was hearing voices.


“(Levesque) didn’t even remember picking him up,” Fuller said. “That’s the kind of state of mind he was in.”
A spokeswoman for DCS confirmed to News4 Investigates that the Smyrna father, charged with the death of his son by leaving him in a hot car, was under investigation by the agency for a crime he committed with another child present.

A police report obtained by News4 Investigates show Dylan Levesque was charged in 2018 with attempting to strangle a woman with a child.

News4 Investigates obtained a police report that shows on July 27, 2018, police were called to the same address from a woman claiming that Levesque attempted to strangle her.

News4 is not identifying the woman because she is a victim of domestic violence and we were unable to contact her for this story.

Her name, however, is different than the name for Daylin’s mother.


The woman told police that when she discovered that a child that she and Levesque have together was eating dog food, she woke him up.

The police report reads that after he was awoken, Levesque attempted to strangle the woman and threw her to the ground.

The woman said she tried to call 911 but Levesque took the phone away, but Levesque’s mother was able to get the phone to the woman.

Officers wrote that when they tried to take Levesque into custody, he struck both officers.

Levesque was ultimately convicted of domestic assault and two counts of simple assault.

After that incident, DCS spokeswoman Jennifer Donnals confirmed that the agency opened an investigation into Levesque.
 
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It is heartbreaking that the mom was either following a court order or was trying to facilitate a relationship between Daylin and his father.

If Levesque's mother, girlfriend and friends new his mental health was in decline they should have stepped in to help him or stop his visits with Daylin.
 
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