City officials identified the 5-year-old boy killed two blocks from his Queens home while crossing a street Thursday evening with his dad.
A 5-year-old boy was killed while crossing a Queens street Thursday evening by a driver who immediately took off from the scene -- as the horror played out in front of the child's family, police said.
The young boy was crossing 100th Street in East Elmhurst with his family before 5:30 p.m., according to police, when a vehicle turned onto the road from McIntosh Street. The vehicle, a white Dodge Ram pickup truck, hit the child and immediately drove away, police said — with the parents right there to see it all play out in front of them.The deadly incident was captured on a neighbor's security camera, showing the driver wasn't speeding and the driver was not making an illegal turn.
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