Shocker - Baby boy dies after spending 10 HOURS in the backseat of sweltering SUV because his father forgot to drop him off at babysitter

A 9-month-old baby boy from California was pronounced dead Wednesday after he was left alone in his father's hot car for 10 hours. According to police, the San Jose resident forgot to drop off his son at his babysitter's home before heading to work and only learned of what happened when he returned to pick up his car. Just after 7pm Wednesday, officers received a 911 call about an unresponsive baby in the backseat of an SUV parked in the 3700 of Payne Avenue in San Jose. First responders who arrived on the scene pronounced the child dead from a suspected heat stroke a short time later. Temperatures hovered around the 80-degree mark Wednesday, but inside the locked car it was likely at least 20 degrees hotter, NBC Bay Areareported. The boy's father, who also has two older children, followed his usual routine Wednesday morning, parking his silver Honda SUV on Payne Avenue before switching to his work vehicle - a large box truck stocked with supplies for vending machines. The dad, whose work hours are 9am to 6pm, had made arrangements to drop off the 9-month-old at his sister-in-law's house, but there was some 'misunderstanding.' When the father and son failed to show up at her home, the woman concluded that someone else must have been caring for the infant that day, according to ABC7 Yousif Nijmeh, whose brother owns the company where the father of three works as a deliveryman, told the NBC station that the man loved the baby 'most in the whole world.' Nijmeh was in the area Wednesday working on his car all day Wednesday, but said he had no idea that the little boy was dying in the backseat of the SUV just steps away because the vehicle had tinted windows. When the father finished his workday and came back to pick up his car, Nijmeh witnessed the man breaking down and sobbing uncontrollably at the sight of his unresponsive son in the sweltering backseat. ‘He's a very responsible father who was so proud of the baby,’ he said. ‘The baby was like a gift from heaven for them.’ So far, the father has not been arrested, but the case will be forwarded to the District Attorney's Office. It is believed to be the first fatality this year involving a child left in a car. According to the organization Kids And Cars, last year 32 children died from heat stroke after being forgotten in a vehicle. Since 1991, there have been 647 cases nationwide – 51 of them in California.