TikTok star's husband 'makes bet and watches basketball game' while son, 3, drowns in pool

A police report says the husband of a popular influencerleft his three-year-old son outside playing while he watched a basketball game, before the boy drowned in the family pool.

Emilie and Brady Kiser's three-year-old son, Trigger, died when he fell in the pool at the couple’s home in Arizona, United States, in May. Emilie Kiser was out with friends at the time, while Brady was left at home to care for Trigg and their newborn son Theordore.

Following the death, police initially recommended be charged with a count of child abuse. But the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office said there was “no reasonable likelihood of conviction”. It comes after reports of a dad’s tragic three-word post hours before plunging to his death at an Oasis gig.

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The police report, according to People, said Brady Kiser rang police at around 6:41pm. He told a responding officer he had lost sight of Trigg for between three to five minutes before finding his son in the pool.

In later interviews with police, Brady said his wife had left to meet her friends. At home, he fed his children and then sat down to watch a basketball game involving the New York Knicks and the Boston Celtics.

Surveillance footage showed Trigg had been left alone for at least nine minutes. At the same time, Brady’s phone data indicates a $25 bet was placed on the NBA game which later returned him $102.50.

Brady said he was sitting in a chair that looked out to the yard. Officers noted that the chairs could be seen by security cameras and he did not sit in one. When questioned, Brady said he was “sitting on the couch” and described facing the TV with a glass door that looked out to the yard on his right hand side.

The reports said: “Brady's statements do not match what is seen on the video; he did not accurately describe one thing [Trigg] did after he went outside. This leads to the conclusion that Brady was not aware of what [Trigg] was doing and was not watching him. The combination of these factors led to drowning, and a remedy to any of the contributing circumstances could have prevented the outcome."

Trigg had been in the water for at least seven minutes before his father found him, the reports said. The footage, according to the reports, showed that Trigg “did not go into the water intentionally, rather he tripped and fell in while playing with an inflatable chair”.

The report said the incident occurred because Trigg was “unsupervised while playing around the unsecured pool and unable to swim” It added: “It is clear Brady’s attention was divided.”

Last week, the Maricopa County Superior Court sided with Emilie Kiser’s motion to have two pages of the report sealed. A ruling said it would only “satisfy morbid curiosity” and “risk exploitation by bad actors” in part because of a written description of officer bodycam footage that showed saw Trigg’s death.

The judge was convinced that social media users would use AI to recreate the incident.

Emilie’s attorney Shannon Clark told the Mail: “We're grateful to [the judge] for carefully balancing the important interests at stake and allowing a narrow but meaningful redaction to the Chandler police report, removing two pages that detail the graphic final moments of Trigg's life. These redactions do not alter any material facts of the accident, but they protect the dignity of a little boy whose memory should reflect the love and light he brought to the world.

“From the start, this has been about protecting Trigg and the family's ability to grieve privately. This decision allows them, and the public, to remember him for the beautiful life he lived, not the tragic way it ended.”