A 9-year-old girl died when her mom left her in her car to work an eight-hour shift in Texas as temperatures soared to nearly 100 degrees. The 36-year-old mom alerted police to the horrifying death after returning to the Toyota Camry where she had left the girl in the backseat as she worked a shift in suburban Houston on Tuesday,

Officials are investigating the death of a 9-year-old girl, who was intentionally left alone in a hot car while her mom was at work.