FORT GREENE, NY : Child struck and killed by NYPD tow truck in Fort Greene on Thursday, 26th October 2023

A 7-year-old boy was struck and killed by an NYPD tow truck while crossing the street with his mother in Brooklyn on Thursday morning.

Kamari Hughes was struck just before 8 a.m. at Myrtle and North Portland avenues while he was on his way to school.

NYPD officials said Hughes was walking with his mother and attempting to cross the street as the tow truck was making a right turn onto North Portland Avenue from Myrtle Avenue.

Witnesses said the boy was on his scooter, and within his mother's reach, doing everything that a pedestrian should.

"The little boy went where he was supposed to so she taught her son well," witness Antwoan Hayes said.

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