SAN ANTONIO – The only survivor of a carbon monoxide poisoning incident in D’Hanis is out of the hospital.
Saphire Cardenas, 18, was sent home Tuesday.
Cardenas decided to spend the night Sunday at her parent’s home and sleep in an 8-foot by 8-foot room with her 3-year-old son. The room had poor ventilation and one window.
On Monday afternoon, the grandmother found Cardenas and the boy passed out inside the room. Cardenas was taken to University Hospital in critical condition. Emergency medical services personnel pronounced the boy dead on the way to a San Antonio hospital.
Family said Poseidon was a ball of energy. His mother had just graduated from D'Hanis High School.
Everything about the incident has left their family asking “What if?”
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"I lost my great nephew, but my parents, it's pretty much a kid to them too," Velinda Gauna, Saphire Cardenas' aunt, said.
An air conditioner was installed a day or two ago. It was placed right above a generator. Investigators believe it was those fumes that poisoned the two.
"My dad would walk come out here and walk around,” Gauna said. “He was the one who would come out here with him and play ball."
The two lived with her grandparents, relatives said.
"They were loved. He was loved,” Abby Mejia said.
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