The Seven Hills School student called 911 around 3pm, telling an emergency operator that he was trapped inside his gold Honda Odyssey parked in the school's parking lot.

During the three minute call, Plush gasped and cried for help, but struggled to communicate his position because he couldn't hear what the operator was saying.

Plush used the Siri function on his phone to call 911, since he couldn't hold it. The phone appeared to be far away from his body since the operator had a hard time making out what he was saying - and even thought it was a woman calling.

'I probably don't have much time left, so tell my mom that I love her if I die,' he said during the call.

The dispatcher sent a police officer to the scene, who searched the parking lot but couldn't find anyone stuck in a van. The officer tried calling the boy's phone again but it went to voicemail. He told the operator in one call that he feared it might be a prank.


At some point, the boy tried calling again, and this time appeared more desperate, because there were sounds of loud banging and heavy breathing.

'This is not a joke,' he said. 'I am trapped inside a gold Honda Odyssey van in the parking lot of Seven Hills. ... Send officers immediately. I'm almost dead.'

The lot is searched again, but still no one is found. It later was revealed that the boy was trapped in a car in the school's overflow parking lot, across the street from the main parking lot, which the deputies did not search.

Later that evening, Plush's mother, Jill, called police worried when he didn't come home from school.

'My son never came home from school,' the victim's mother said in released 911 audio. 'And we thought he was at a tennis match. And he never came home from school.'

Finally, around 9pm, the boy was found by his father, trapped in the third row bench seat. Paramedics that were sent to the scene pronounced him dead.

The coroner later determined his death as accidental 'asphyxia caused by chest compression'.

An internal investigation into all employees involved in the search has been initiated. On Thursday, Cincinnati Police Chief Eliot Isaac said the dispatcher who received Plush's second call, Amber Smith, has been placed on administrative leave because she did not convey information to the responding officers. There were no further details on why she did not further aid the search for the boy. Smith has worked as a dispatcher since 2014.

'Something has gone terribly wrong,' Isaac said. 'We need to find out why.'

Isaac said she there could have been equipment issues or human error.

Plush's uncle told WCPO Wednesday night the 911 system failed his nephew, who was a 'great kid'.

His school also released a statement, saying he had been a student there since sixth grade. Seven Hills is rated the best private school in Cincinnati and tuition ranges between $6,740 and $24,740 a year.

'He was a young man of keen intelligence, good humor, and great courage, and this whole community feels this loss very deeply,' a school spokesman said.



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Why didn't they contact School Administrators to find out where all the parking lots were! Wow.

The kid was very clear about the type of car. It's a shame he didn't just call a friend or his parents.

Horrible.

I cannot imagine the pain and fear he experienced as this was all happening. As a parent myself this would kill me to accept my child's death, and then to think how it happened. Sending prayers to his family and school mates. I was a communications office rat our Sheriff's Department for several years and that 911 person dropped the ball. Such an unnecessary tragedy.

Sounds like a scene from Final Destination, or 1000 Ways to Die.

This is a wrongful death suit if ever I read one.

Saw this on the news this morning. Just heart breaking to realize how long he suffered and he could have been saved. :(

This just breaks my heart. 😢

Trunks have a glow in the dark pull, so if you accidently get shut in, you can pop the trunk.

I wonder why there wasn't a safety type button to release the seat? Or a sensor, to prevent the seat from folding if it detected something/someone, in the way?

I realize, this must have been a freak accident.

And, very sad.

But, I think Honda is going to get sued. This was a design flaw, IMHO.

 

The automatic doors on my minivan scare me as well. There are no sensors to stop it from closing once it starts. I fear someone's hand getting cut off or something.

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The automatic doors on my minivan scare me as well. There are no sensors to stop it from closing once it starts. I fear someone's hand getting cut off or something.

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 Same with the back of my small SUV, push a button on the inside or the hatch and it shuts without having to push it manually down but no sensor that detects anything entering or exiting the car.  So if the hatchback is going down and someone sticks their hand in, the hatchback will still go down.  Now if there is something in the way of the hatch totally closing it won't lock  and will stop going down.  Weird

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It seems like they are trying to lay this solely on the 911 operator. What about the Police who didn't do a thorough search? The police were dispatched , it was THEIR job to search.

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 As I said before it was a total fail by all the responders. And "they" is the fake media trying to pin it on the 911 dispatch.

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I know what to do_sometimes wrote:

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Lady Gaga Snerd wrote:

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It seems like they are trying to lay this solely on the 911 operator. What about the Police who didn't do a thorough search? The police were dispatched , it was THEIR job to search.

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 As I said before it was a total fail by all the responders. And "they" is the fake media trying to pin it on the 911 dispatch.

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This was a fail on Honda.

My garage door, will stop going down, and go back up, if a freaking leaf blows by the sensor.

Honda couldn't put in a senor, that would detect something over a pound?

Hell no! 

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 This is a freak accident.  This is not something that a reasonable person would foresee happening. 

I do think it was a freak accident. Not sure that is something that could have been foreseen. And, since the car is a 2002 model, the mechanism that the seat rotates on my have not been working properly.
However Honda would be wise to write out a big check and then pledge to look at the safety of their seats.

In this scenario, the biggest failure is the Police who didnt' check all the lots. 2 officers looked initially and then another officer went back. One supposedly looked in a van and didnt' see anything but it isn't clear if that was the boy's van or not. The failure I see on 911 is that if she told them it was a Honda Van and she didnt' relay that. However, I think think the Police just assumed this was a prank wasting their time.