Overview

• Kelly Brown, 40, was arrested early Sunday after deputies responding to a welfare check found her 3-year-old daughter unresponsive inside a vehicle in Milford.
• Family members requested the wellness check that led Penobscot County officers to the car registered to Brown’s name outside a local business.
• Brown faces a manslaughter charge and has been booked at the Penobscot County Jail ahead of her first court appearance at the Penobscot Judicial Center.
• Maine State Police and the sheriff’s office major crimes unit are leading the probe and have called on the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Augusta to conduct an autopsy.
• Public records show Brown has lived in Havertown, Pennsylvania, for over a decade, though authorities have not explained why she was in Maine.