The Austin Police Department is investigating a toddler’s death Monday after it appeared she experienced a medical emergency during the winter storms and died a few days later at the hospital.
Police said at 6:06 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 15, Austin 911 got a call from a resident reporting a baby, later identified as 2-year-old Isabella Rios, was seizing and struggling to breathe, according to police.
Austin-Travis County EMS and the Austin Fire Department arrived on scene to give care to Rios. She was taken to Dell Children’s Medical Center, where she died three days later on Thursday, Feb. 18 at 4:12 p.m., police said.
Based on information gathered by hospital staff, the APD Child Abuse Unit was called in to investigate on Feb. 16, APD said.
The Travis County Medical Examiner did an autopsy on Feb. 19. Detectives are awaiting the results, APD said, but are considering the death suspicious based on the evidence found so far. They are investigating the death as a homicide.
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