Washington County officers found a toddler dead inside a car outside his home Monday evening, according to the Washington County Sheriff’s Office.

According to a news release sent Wednesday afternoon, first responders received a call at about 6:11 p.m. Monday. Dispatchers said they couldn’t understand enough to gather information — they just heard someone screaming.

Dispatchers at first treated the call like a 911 hang-up, the release said, and sent officers to the location in Veyo, about 20 miles north of St. George. Eventually they pieced together that a child was hurt, and dispatched medical crews as well.

Medical teams arrived to find an unresponsive 3-year-old boy. The crews, working with an on-call doctor, declared the child dead at the scene, the release said. The child’s body ha

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