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Rockwall Caregiver Arrested After 6-Month-Old Found Dead in Car at High School

Police cite a missed daycare drop-off detailed in an arrest affidavit, prompting investigations by Rockwall detectives plus DFPS.

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Overview

  • Camerone Tyrone Leichman, 36, was booked late Tuesday on a second-degree felony charge of injury to a child and remains in custody with no bond set.
  • Officers were called to the Rockwall-Heath High School staff lot around 4:40 p.m., where a 6-month-old girl was found unresponsive in a car seat and pronounced dead at the scene.
  • An arrest affidavit alleges the infant was left unattended in a vehicle for about eight hours after Leichman failed to drop her at daycare.
  • Paramedics recorded the child's body temperature at 107 degrees and did not attempt resuscitation because she was already deceased, according to the affidavit.
  • The infant’s identity has not been released, her relationship to Leichman is unclear, and parallel investigations by Rockwall Police and the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services continue pending autopsy results.