Updated at 3:19 p.m., Monday, March 19, 2007
Girl's death attributed to hyperthermia
By Rod Ohira
Advertiser Staff Writer
The Honolulu Medical Examiner's office listed the cause of Sera Okutani's death as "hyperthermia due to environmental exposure/excessive heat" and manner as an accident.
The girl's father left her in a parked car at about 2 p.m. at a Pi'ikoi Street apartment building where he went to repair a computer, police said.