The Philadelphia Police Department has begun a homicide investigation, officials said, after a one-year-old girl died after she was found unresponsive in a West Philadelphia home on Sunday, Dec. 14, 2025.
According to police, on Sunday, Dec. 14, 2025, at about 2:25 p.m., police responded to a “hospital case” involving a choking child along the 3800 block of Fairmount Avenue in West Philadelphia.
At that time, responding officers found the girl — identified Tuesday as Aura Harnett-Baxter — unresponsive at the home…