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Emilie Kiser's husband allegedly placed a $25 NBA bet before 3-year-old son's fatal drowning, police say

Emilie Kiser's husband allegedly placed a $25 NBA bet before 3-year-old son's fatal drowning, police say

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Arizona police on Friday released new details about the fatal May drowning of influencer Emilie Kiser's 3-year-old son, including allegations that her husband placed a $25 bet on an NBA playoff game before the tragic incident.
Brady Kiser, the husband of the parenting influencer, was home with the couple's two sons while his wife was out with friends on May 12 when Trigger drowned in the family's backyard pool, according to the Chandler Police Department report unsealed on Friday. The report states that the toddler was in the pool for around seven minutes before Kiser found him unconscious and took him out of the water. He died in the hospital six days later.
Police initially recommended that Kiser be charged with one count of child abuse, but the Maricopa County Attorney's Office later determined that he would not face charges because there was 'no reasonable likelihood of conviction.'
Kiser's lawyer previously said that he is 'grateful to law enforcement and the county attorney for conducting a thorough investigation and confirming that this was a tragic accident.'
According to the report obtained by People magazine, Kiser called the police around 6:41 p.m. local time and told the responding officer that he had lost sight of Trigger for around three to five minutes before he found his son in the pool.
In a series of subsequent interviews, Kiser detailed his day to officers after his wife left to meet friends, including feeding his kids dinner and sitting on the couch while watching Game 4 of the NBA Finals between the New York Knicks and the Boston Celtics.
'I didn't have a clock, obviously,' Kiser told police in an initial interview about how long he lost sight of his son. '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.'
Surveillance footage, however, showed that Trigger was unsupervised for at least nine minutes, and had been in the water for at least seven before Kiser found him, the report states. The footage also showed that the toddler 'did not go into the water intentionally, rather he tripped and fell in while playing with an inflatable chair,' the report states.
Around that same time, according to Kiser's phone data detailed in the report, 'a $25 wager was placed on Jayson Tatum scoring more than 40 points' on a sports betting app at around 5:14 p.m. local time, before his wife left. The report states that the 'wager was a winner, paying $102.50.'
The report states that the incident was the result of Trigger being 'unsupervised while playing around the unsecured pool and unable to swim.'
'It is clear Brady's attention was divided,' the report added.
The report's release came one day after the Arizona Superior Court for Maricopa County ruled in Emilie Kiser's favor after she requested to seal certain details about her son's death.
Emilie Kiser, who has built millions of followers across TikTok and Instagram with mom and wife content, has not publicly commented on her son's death. An attorney for the Kisers did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Saturday.
This article was originally published on NBCNews.com
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