(Peekskill, NY) -- The trial continues today for a New York man accused of leaving his elderly father to die inside a car in the summertime heat while he went to work.

Forty-nine-year-old Theodore Pressman faces reckless endangerment charge for leaving his frail parents inside his car with the windows up in July 2008.

The first paramedic to arrive at the scene testified it appeared 85-year-old Joseph Pressman died hours before a call to 911 was placed.

The emergency responder noted the first stages of rigor mortis had already set in.

The Westchester Medical Examiner did not determine an exact cause of death.

Pressman often left his parents in local coffee shops and restaurants while he worked, rather than leave them alone in the large house they shared.

Pressman still lives there with his mother, who is now 76.

The jury could get the case on Friday.

　

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