A Walmart delivery driver from Monroeville was charged with child endangerment after Murrysville police said she left a child unattended in a vehicle last month, according to the Westmoreland County District Attorney’s Office.
Munara Ismailova, 36, was arrested Thursday after police say she left a 5-year-old in her vehicle in the parking lot of a Walmart grocery store in Salem on June 7.
A passerby who saw the child crying in the vehicle noticed the vehicle’s doors were unlocked and took the child inside the store before calling 911. It was 83 degrees and sunny that day, Murrysville police said.
Police saw the vehicle was running, but it was blowing hot air instead of air conditioning, police said. The child was given a cell phone, but its battery had depleted.
The child was taken to a hospital for evaluation.
Police had Walmart employees page Ismailova, the owner of the vehicle. Police contacted an off-duty Murrysville officer to help translate the conversation in Russian.
Ismailova told officers she was in the store for 15 minutes. Surveillance video showed she arrived 23 minutes before 911 was called and nearly 45 minutes before officers contacted her.
Walmart employees told police Ismailova is a delivery driver for Walmart’s Spark service.