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Investigation continues, no new information released four days after Spring Hill baby dies in car

 
Hernando County Sheriff's Office investigators on Friday examine the car that deputies said a 9-month-old infant boy was found in. Keyton O'Callaghan was found in a car seat by his father at about 11:30 a.m., deputies said, and later pronounced dead at Oak Hill Hospital. The mother had been caring for the infant since Thursday night, deputies said. [MEGAN REEVES  |  Times]
Hernando County Sheriff's Office investigators on Friday examine the car that deputies said a 9-month-old infant boy was found in. Keyton O'Callaghan was found in a car seat by his father at about 11:30 a.m., deputies said, and later pronounced dead at Oak Hill Hospital. The mother had been caring for the infant since Thursday night, deputies said. [MEGAN REEVES | Times]
Published Aug. 21, 2018

SPRING HILL — Four days after a 9-month-old boy died when he was left in a hot car, investigators still are piecing together what happened — and the Hernando County Sheriff said it may be some time before they reach a conclusion.

"Unfortunately, we're probably not going to have any answers any time in the real near future," Sheriff Al Nienhuis said in a statement left by voicemail for a Tampa Bay Times reporter.

Keyton O'Callaghan was found about 11:30 a.m. Friday in a car outside his home at 12310 Elgin Blvd. Deputies said his father, 32-year-old Eric O'Callaghan, arrived at the house and found the boy in a car seat. Keyton was rushed to a local hospital, where he died within the hour.

The boy's mother, 38-year-old Cami Lee Moyer, had been caring for him since Thursday night, deputies said. When a reporter visited the home on Monday and Tuesday, no one answered the door.

As of Tuesday afternoon, the Sheriff's Office had made no arrests in the case. The agency would not disclose how long the baby was in the car, or how hot the temperature was inside.

"Making sure that we cross all our t's and dot all our i's is critically important to, one, determine if a crime occurred, and, number two, if a crime did occur, that we can hold the person who's responsible accountable," Nienhuis said.

If the Sheriff's Office and State Attorney's Office agree the boy's death was a crime, they want to offer "the most prosecutable case" possible, he said.