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Car rolls over, kills toddler

Updated: Wednesday, 24 Oct 2012, 5:20 PM EDT
Published : Wednesday, 24 Oct 2012, 3:59 PM EDT

LAFAYETTE, Ind. (WLFI) - Lafayette police say a 2-year-old boy is dead after a car rolled over him.

Dispatchers say it happened around 2 p.m. at 2504 Regent Court just south of Brady Lane.

Police say the boy, Kordyn Haas, was on a driveway behind a parked car.

The car rolled backward after accidentally shifting to reverse, rolling over Kordyn. There was no one in the car at the time. The car was getting cleaned.

Kordyn sustained head trauma.

Witnesses performed CPR on the seriously injured child before he was taken by ambulance to a hospital.

He was sent to St. Elizabeth East Hospital and died there.

Police are treating it as an accident.

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