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Truck kills College Hills boy at his birthday party
May 16, 2005 20:07 PM
The Associated Press
A College Hills boy died after being struck by a pickup truck during a party celebrating his 4th birthday.
Family members said Tommy LaMark "TJ" Sanders Jr. was picking up candy off the ground about 8:30 p.m. Saturday as a truck from a children`s amusement and entertainment company was backing up. Two men in the truck had just picked up the company`s moonwalk, which had been used at the party.
The boy`s cousin, Keierra Palmore, 15, said he was celebrating his birthday with his other cousin, Darrin Lee, 6.
Many party attendees were on the front porch and the side of the small apartment building when the incident occurred.
Palmore said the truck had apparently backed up in the grassy yard of the apartment building and knocked Sanders into the adjoining sidewalk before driving over him.
"I just ran out there when I saw him laying out there," she said. "He was breathing."
The truck left the scene and people at the party reported the incident. The truck driver later returned to the apartment building and said he didn`t know his truck had hit the child, Palmore said.
She said Sanders, who had two older sisters, was taken to Children`s Hospital. The child`s mother, Jacqueline Sanders, declined comment. |
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