4-Year-Old Boy Killed, 6-Year-Old Boy Seriously Injured After Being Struck by Van in Brooklyn

Brooklyn, NY – A 4-year-old boy was killed and a 6-year-old boy was seriously injured after a 66-year-old van driver struck them outside a Brooklyn yeshiva in the morning of January 4. Video shows that the driver had just dropped the kids off on 67th Street near 20th Avenue in Bensonhurst and then drove off. He returned to the scene on foot after parking his van more than a mile away on Bay Parkway. Police took him into custody for probing.

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