Child dies in hot car while dad is at work in Paso Robles

May 12, 2025

By KAREN VELIE

A father is in jail and his child is dead from heat exhaustion after being left in a vehicle while the 27-year-old man went to work at the Paso Robles Inn on Saturday.

While the man worked from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., the 6 or 7-year-old child was left in the vehicle. Paso Robles experienced a record breaking 99 degree high temperature on Saturday.

Paso Robles officers arrested Briant Reyes Estrada on Sunday morning. He remains in jail without bail on felony charges of child endangerment and murder.

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He has a criminal history. Legal status please.


What a shame. Nobody knows the circumstances.


6 or 7 YEAR old? Is that a typo. I would think a child that old would get hot and leave.


Child locks on cars are not a new thing… and death by heat exhaustion doesnt happen the way you seem to think it does… be careful out there; no one is immune to it.


Certainly, a tragedy for all. It could be that childcare is not much less than the fathers’ wages and or minutes became forgetful hours.???? Very sad.


I just cannot imagine.


God bless you, child.


Life sentence.


Really, why do we just execute him…