Boys Left Buckled in Back Seat of a Sweltering Car Are Laid to Rest
Dustin and Devin Ducker were laid to rest Thursday in tiny white caskets two days after they died side by side, buckled into their car seats in the back of their mother’s sweltering car.
Investigators said their mother, Jennie Bain, was partying with four men in a motel room, had too much to drink and fell asleep as the temperature inside the car climbed as high as 115 degrees. Dustin, 1, and Devin, about 2, died of hyperthermia, or overheating, autopsies showed.
Bain, 20, attended the service but watched the burial from the back seat of a car. She was shielded by relatives as she left the church.
The boys’ father, 23-year-old James Ducker, who had recently filed for divorce from Bain, plucked one flower from each coffin before they were lowered into the ground. He had driven overnight from Marshall, N.C., where he lives with his mother, to attend the funerals.
Bain has not been arrested or charged in the deaths. A grand jury is scheduled to hear the case June 16.
“There’s a wide range of potential charges,” said Dist. Atty. Bill Locke.
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