WARSAW, IN : 8-year-old killed in car accident identified on Tuesday, 11th June 2019

The Warsaw Police Department have identified the 8-year-old boy hit and killed while crossing North Point Drive as Gidieon Cook.

The tragedy struck when the 8-year-old Harrison Elementary School student Gidieon Cook, was on his was home from summer school.

“Devastating, just tragic," said Karen Steel. She and her mother witnessed the scene just moments after the initial impact. "So we walked up to the sidewalk and we were very close and that’s when we realized, 'mom that’s a child laying there'.”

Originally emergency crews were taking cook to Fort Wayne Lutheran Hospital but they diverted to nearby Parkview Hospital because of the extent of his injuries.

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