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New York

hrmjustin

(71,265 posts) Sat Oct 12, 2013, 07:39 PM Oct 2013

2-year old struck and killed by SUV in Jackson Heights

Eyewitness News

NEW YORK (WABC) -- A two-year old boy was struck and killed by an SUV while walking across a road in Jackson Heights, Queens Friday night.

Police say the vehicle was going northbound on Junction Boulevard and hit the boy as he crossed the street with his mother at about 9:50 p.m.

The operator of the SUV stopped and took the child and his mother to Booth Memorial Hospital, where the boy, Jaied Gigueroa, was pronounced dead.

Read more at http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news/local/new_york&id=9284530