Metro Animal Care & Control (MACC) needs help identifying the person who left a litter of kittens to die in a Walmart parking lot in West Nashville on Sunday.

MACC told News 2’s Andy Cordan they responded to a call about a cat and kittens abandoned in a crossover SUV in the Walmart parking lot on Charlotte Pike, Sunday.

Investigators located three dead kittens that were approximately one-week-old in a locked crate in the back seat of the SUV. Inside the car, officials say temperatures were well over 100 degrees.

The mother cat was found outside the vehicle. She is expected to be okay.

According to investigators, the “owner went out of town and left them there. She was living out of the cross over in the parking lot.” They SUV where the dead kittens were found was also filled with trash.

If you have any information about the owner of the vehicle, please contact MACC.