A 2-year-old girl died after being run over by a Jeep driven by her father, Winter Haven police say.
Laysha Haslem died Friday following the incident at 540 Avenue C N.E.
Donald Haslem, 36, was in a 2002 Jeep Wrangler in his neighbor's carport. Shortly before 2 p.m. that day, he planned to move the Jeep. The girl's mother, Daphne Rhea, was outside the vehicle's driver's-side window at the time, and neither realized that their daughter had followed the woman to the Jeep, police say.
"As Donald Haslem pulled the Jeep forward he realized that he had run something over," a Winter Haven police news release states. "He stopped and exited the vehicle when he heard Rhea screaming."
Haslem and Rhea picked up the girl and took her to Winter Haven Hospital.
She was pronounced dead at 2:54 p.m. Friday.
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