OAN Staff Brooke Mallory
11:52 AM – Wednesday, July 9, 2025
Bodycam footage captured the moment that Georgia police officers shattered the window of a dangerously overheated vehicle, parked in the blistering sun, to rescue two crying toddlers locked inside.
The children had been reportedly waiting for over 40 minutes as temperatures inside the car soared to 117 degrees, as it was parked outside Atlanta’s Cumberland Mall. The two children were approximately “1 and 2 years old,” local news sources reported.
Police were alerted to the car by a concerned passerby who called them, according to FOX 5 Atlanta.
“The windows are cracked, but I don’t think that’s right. We just came out of Dick’s and I heard kids crying,” the female caller said to the 911 dispatcher.
Police body camera footage, released by KGNS TV, depicted concerned officers smash the car’s driver-side window in order to rescue the children from the sweltering triple-digit heat.
“It’s okay, baby. Oh, you’re hot,” one officer can be heard saying tenderly to one of them during the harrowing rescue.
J’quawn Dixon, the children’s “guardian” at the time, was taken into custody upon returning from the mall. He has been charged with two felony counts of child cruelty. However, despite a slew of outlets referring to him as the toddlers’ father, it is unclear if Dixon is their biological father, a step father, or a boyfriend to the mother — and the police did not specify.
Although the outdoor temperature peaked at 87 degrees that day, an infrared thermometer registered a staggering 117 degrees inside the vehicle, police reiterated.
“A big THANK YOU to the concerned citizens who called 911. Your quick action is the reason these kids are safe today,” Cobb County police wrote on Facebook (Meta). “You saw something and did something, and that made all the difference.”
According to FOX 5, Dixon was arrested and freed the next day after posting a $10,000 bond at the Cobb County Jail.
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