Police in Council Bluffs are investigating the death of an infant. Authorities say at around 4:37-a.m. Saturday, Officers of the Council Bluffs Police Department were dispatched to the 500 Block of 23rd Avenue to assist paramedics with an unresponsive infant in a vehicle on 23rd Avenue. Upon their arrival paramedics were unable to detect vital signs on the infant and began CPR. The infant was rushed to Jennie Edmundson Hospital where efforts to revive the child by emergency staff were unsuccessful and the infant was eventually pronounced dead at the hospital.

Holley Campbell who resides at 3618 Ronald Road in Council Bluffs, told investigators she woke up at around 4-a.m. to check on her two month old son, Donavon Hopkins, only to finding him unresponsive and not breathing. Campbell then loaded Donavon in a car and rushed off for the hospital.

While enroute to the hospital, Campbell experienced mechanical problems with the vehicle. The vehicle became disabled near South 5th Street and 23rd Avenue where she flagged down another motorist for help. An investigation into the incident is ongoing, and was being conducted by the Council Bluffs Police Department Criminal Investigation Division.