Story highlights "Lack of communication" cited in boy's death, sheriff says

Infant dies when grandparents leave him in car for more than 2 hours

The child was 19th in the United States to die in a hot car in 2015

(CNN) An 11-month-old boy died in Georgia over the weekend when his grandparents forgot him in the car for two hours, police said.

Early indications are that the boy's death was accidental, "but we are keeping an open mind," Walker County Sheriff Steve Wilson told CNN.

The boy's grandparents were babysitting Saturday while the mother, who works the night shift, slept at home, he said.

According to Wilson, Kyle and Meta Hendershot took the baby, Jaxon, to church in Chickamauga along with another one of their adult daughters and another grandchild.

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