Flint Man Pleads Guilty in Hot Car Death

TYLER — A Flint man pleaded guilty in a Smith County court Friday in the death of his daughter. KETK reports he was also charged in the injury of a second daughter. At an 11 a.m. hearing in the 7th Judicial District Court, Russell Lindstrom, 33, entered a guilty plea on two counts of injury to a child. A sentencing hearing is scheduled for Monday, February 2. If a not guilty plea had been entered, a jury trial was slated to begin on January 12. The suspect’s charges were lowered from one count of manslaughter and one count of injury to a child to two counts of injury to a child in October.

A 911 call was received in June about two unresponsive youngsters inside a hot pickup with the windows rolled up in the 18000 block of County Road 1100. Bella Lindstrom, aged four, was taken to a hospital, where she died. Her three-year-old sister Zoey was hospitalized and released the next day. Russell Lindstrom was arrested in July at a mobile home park in the 17000 block of Highway 155 South.