The Philadelphia Police Department has begun a homicide investigation, officials said, after a one-year-old girl died after she was found unresponsive in a West Philadelphia home on Sunday, Dec. 14, 2025.<\/p>\n
According to police, on Sunday, Dec. 14, 2025, at about 2:25 p.m., police responded to a “hospital case” involving a choking child along the 3800 block of Fairmount Avenue in West Philadelphia. <\/p>\n
At that time, responding officers found the girl — identified Tuesday as Aura Harnett-Baxter — unresponsive at the home. <\/p>\n
She was taken to a nearby hospital where she was pronounced at about 3:13 p.m., police said. <\/p>\n
On Tuesday morning, police announced that a homicide investigation had begun into the circumstances surrounding the child’s death. <\/p>\n
No suspects have been detailed by police and no arrests have been announced. <\/p>\n
But, an investigation is ongoing, officials said. <\/p>\n
NBC10 is working to learn more. <\/p>\n
This is a breaking news story. It will be updated as new information becomes available. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Philadelphia Police Department has begun a homicide investigation, officials said, after a one-year-old girl died after she…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":434507,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5132],"tags":[5229,1448,2830,1311,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,32611],"class_list":{"0":"post-466948","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-pa","10":"tag-pennsylvania","11":"tag-philadelphia","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-united-states-of-america","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","16":"tag-us","17":"tag-usa","18":"tag-west-philadelphia"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115769829296492928","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}