A 6-year-old boy who was struck by a car and killed has been identified as Darien Lewis. His grandfather was there as Darien was stuck underneath the truck that he saw repeatedly hit him. (Read More Here).
“I got on the ground, and I held him,” Dana Hubbard, Darien’s grandfather, said only to ABC13. “I felt his pulse and said, ‘We have a pulse. Someone call 911 to get my grandson some help.’ To take his last breath, and him letting go of my hand, it hurts a whole lot.”
Hubbard said his grandchildren were at his home having dinner when they decided to walk across the street to get a snack on Leawood Boulevard in southwest Houston. His grandson was walking across the parking lot in front of a washateria when he saw the truck.
“He came in on my left side and hit my grandson. That’s how close he was to me,” Hubbard said. “I was able to hit his car to let him know what happened. I ran around and I said, ‘You just hit my grandson.’ He stopped, he backed up, drove over my grandson again, and stopped his truck on his head.”
According to a Houston Police Department news release, 52-year-old Pedro Alberto Hernandez has been charged with murder and driving while intoxicated in connection with the death of a 6-year-old boy.
Speaking with KTRK-TV, family members identified the boy as Darien Lewis.
Authorities say that on Saturday, Hernandez was driving his pickup truck through a shopping center parking lot when he struck Darien with his vehicle, the release states.
Darien was pronounced dead at the scene and Hernandez, determined by responding officers to allegedly be intoxicated, was taken into custody, the release states.
According to KTRK, Darien — who had autism — was with his grandfather at the time of the incident.
The pair were reportedly out walking to get a snack after dinner when the boy was hit.
“I got on the ground, and I held him,” Darien’s grandfather Dana Hubbard told the outlet.
“I felt his pulse, and said, ‘We have a pulse. Someone call 911 to get my grandson some help.'”
“To take his last breath, and him letting go of my hand, it hurts a whole lot,” Hubbard said
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