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Autopsy: Bradley Co. Boys Died Of Hyperthermia

790 views · Published 7 July 2012 · 1:57 · Indexed 6 November 2026

Channel: WTVC NewsChannel 9 · 2012 · News & Politics

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by John Madewell  Hyperthermia is the cause of death for 3-year-old River and 5-year-old Leland Bates.The boy's mother, Tasha Moses, found them unresponsive last Thursday in the front yard of their Bradley County home at 879 Keith Valley Road.On that day, the temperature reached 103 degrees.The preliminary autopsies on both boys lists hyperthermia as the cause of death, with the manner of death pending the investigation.The report goes on to say the boys had "markedly elevated core temperature (clinical) with coma and death."Moses told her grandmother, Faye Ghorley, that the boys didn't eat much of their breakfast that day. Afterward, they went out to play on a slip and slide. Moses told her grandmother she was with them and disconnected the water hose after the boys finished playing on the slip and slide.At that point, Ghorley said her granddaughter went back inside and left the boys playing in the driveway.Ghorley said, "She said she could hear them playing when she went  in the house and said she came back when she quit hearing them playing, she wondered where they was at. So she come back out, said it had been about 45 minutes and she came back outside and she couldn't find them."Moses told her grandmother she thought her boys had wandered over to a neighbor's home. She yelled for them, but got no response. Next, she found them in the front yard.Ghorley said before this incident, her granddaughter had gotten her cell phone wet and it didn't work. Moses didn't have an immediate way to call 911. "And I know she panicked. She picked them up and all of her neighbors was working that she knew, you know that she was acquainted with," said Ghorley."And so her daddy lived about two miles from where she lived. She picked them up and put them in the car and took off over there to get help from 911."Initially, Moses reported to 911 this was a possible drowning. But inve

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