An unsealed police report revealed new details into the drowning death of influencer Emilie Kiser’s three-year-old son this past May.
On May 18, Trigg Kiser died at an Arizona hospital following a drowning incident that occurred six days earlier. The drowning, which happened on May 12, took place at the Kiser family home in Chandler, a suburb of Phoenix, while Trigg and his newborn brother were under the care of their father Brady Kiser.
Brady initially told investigators that he was with the newborn when he lost sight of Trigg for three to five minutes, at which point he said he found Trigg floating in the family’s backyard pool.
“I didn’t have a clock, obviously,” Brady Kiser initially told investigators. “I don’t know the exact time, but it was moments, it wasn’t minutes, it was moments, it wasn’t that he had been out of sight for long.”
However, the police report — obtained Friday by the Arizona Republic — states that surveillance footage showed that Trigg was actually unsupervised for at least nine minutes, and was in the water for seven minutes before his father found him. During that time, Kiser was allegedly watching an NBA playoff game, and placed a $25 wager on a sports betting app.
Surveillance video also revealed that that Trigg “did not go into the water intentionally, rather he tripped and fell in while playing with an inflatable chair.”
“This tragic incident was the result of Trigg being in the backyard unsupervised while playing around the unsecured pool and unable to swim,” the Chandler Police Department said. “It is clear Brady’s attention was divided, and he was not watching at all during the critical times mentioned. During two interviews he did not know what was doing before he fell in and did not see struggling to swim.”
While the Chandler Police Department recommended a class 4 felony child abuse charge against Brady Kiser, the Maricopa Attorney’s Office opted not to charge him, saying there was “no likelihood of conviction.”
