The husband of influencer Emilie Kiser allegedly left their three-year-old son unsupervised for much longer than he claimed as he watched the NBA playoffs. Photo: Emilie Kiser/Instagram
The husband of influencer Emilie Kiser allegedly left their three-year-old son unsupervised for much longer than he claimed as he watched the NBA playoffs, leading to the boy’s drowning in their Arizona backyard pool.
According to the Chandler Police Department’s redacted report released Friday, video evidence shows that Emilie’s husband, Brady Kiser, left little Trigg “in the backyard unsupervised for more than nine minutes” on the evening of May 12.
The report states that Trigg — who would have turned 4 in July — was “in the water for about seven of those minutes.” Brady previously told police that Trigg was only out of his sight for mere moments.
“I didn’t have a clock, obviously, I don’t know the exact time, but it was moments,” Brady told an investigating officer, according to the report. “It wasn’t minutes, it was moments. It wasn’t that he had been out of sight for long.”
However, the lead investigator on the case, citing surveillance footage from the home, ultimately concluded Trigg tripped within two-and-a-half minutes of being outside and ended up in the pool at 6.32pm. He was in the water until his dad found him at 6.39.
“It is clear Brady’s attention was divided, and he was not watching [Trigg] at all during the critical times mentioned,” the police report states. “During two interviews, he did not know what [Trigg] was doing before he fell in and did not see [Trigg] struggling to swim.”
Brady, however, has insisted he wasn’t distracted by the NBA playoffs — despite having bet money on the Game 4 face-off between the New York Knicks and the Boston Celtics, and the game being on TV when officers arrived at the scene.
In his second interview with police, Brady maintained that was “not where [his] focus was,” but instead on their 5-month-old, Theodore. He said that between the time 26-year-old Emilie left to meet up with friends and when he found Trigg in the pool, he’d “never set … down” their newborn son.
Little Trigg was ultimately declared dead on May 18 after spending nearly a week in the hospital in critical condition.
Contrary to the Chandler Police Department’s recommendation that Brady be charged with felony child abuse in Trigg’s fatal drowning, the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office announced late last month it would not pursue the case.
“Brady Kiser will not be charged in the drowning death of his son because there is no reasonable likelihood of conviction,” prosecutors said. – New York Daily News/Tribune News Service
