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Three-Year-Old Fatally Hit By Ambulette In Brooklyn
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Ben Yakas
Published Jun 9, 2012
Modified Jun 9, 2012
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A three-year-old Brooklyn boy was fatally hit by an ambulette in Coney Island last night. The little boy, Kevin Rodriguez, was outside a corner laundromat with his father a block from their home at W. 16th Street around 7:30 p.m. Friday evening. He suddenly ran into the street at W. 15th Street near Neptune Avenue when an oncoming ambulette hit him. “The baby was lifeless. It’s something you never want to see,” witness Matthew Rennick, who called 911, told the News. “His father picked him up and was holding him. The baby’s face was covered in blood."
The ambulette driver told police he didn't see the child in time to stop, but the boy's mother, Feizy Marcos, did see and tried to warn him: “He hit him and he was under the car,” Luis Peregine, a family member of Kevin's, told the Post. “And she saw he was still trying to get up. And she kept telling him to stop and then he moved and she said the wheel went over his head. The back wheel went over his neck.”
The boy was taken to Coney Island Hospital, where he was declared dead. No criminality is suspected, and police said the driver wouldn't be charged. “Kevin was just a sweet and innocent little thing. He never did nothing bad to anybody,” the boy’s cousin, Rosario Rodriguez, told the Post. “There are no words that can express what we are feeling right now.”
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