Man is charged in hot car death

A grand jury has indicted a former bus driver in the death last year of a 3-year-old boy who was found in a hot van outside a day care.

Maurice Mitchell was arrested Tuesday after being indicted last week on a charge of injury to a child by recklessly causing serious bodily injury or death.

The Harris County district attorney’s office says Raymond Pryer Jr. died July 19, 2018, after being left in a bus for more than three hours following a field trip.

Authorities said the van’s interior temperature climbed to 113 degrees

Prosecutors allege the 62-year-old Mitchell disengaged a passenger safety alarm, used to ensure young riders weren’t left behind, without first performing a visual inspection.