Ty Martin reportedly left his year-old daughter to die in a hot car while he smoked weed and played video games with a friend (Picture: Lake Havasu City PD)

A father accused of leaving his daughter to die in a hot car while he smoked weed has been permitted to hire an expert witness. Ty Martin, 23, was granted funds at a court hearing Thursday which will allow his legal team to hire a forensic pathologist to investigate his year-old daughter Madison’s May 2019 death.

His lawyers explained that they wish to have their own official version of events on the day Madison died, rather than have to rely on evidence collected by prosecutors. Madison was killed in Kingman, Arizona, after Martin parked up outside a pal’s house and left her in the car while he went to smoke marijuana and play video games.



She spent 45 minutes in the sweltering vehicle, with outside temperatures in Kingman regularly climbing above 80F in May. After Martin left the house, he and friend Noah Grabowski, 23, drove off before realizing Madison was dead and slumped over her seat.

They called 911, but emergency responders were unable to revive her, with Madison pronounced dead shortly afterwards at a nearby hospital, the Mohave Valley Desert News reported. Martin was subsequently charged with second-degree murder, after Lake Havasu City Police branded his daughter’s death ‘tragic and completely avoidable.’ Grabowski was arrested on drug paraphernalia charges after police allegedly found weed inside his home.


Martin is due back in court for another procedural hearing on April 17.