Police Search For Driver Who Hit Boy On Bike
Witnesses: Suspect Pulls Boy From Pickup, Flees
POSTED: Thursday, January 2, 2003
UPDATED: 4:27 pm CST January 2,
2003
HOUSTON -- A 6-year-old boy remained hospitalized Thursday after police said that he was run over by someone backing up a red pickup at his northwest Houston apartment complex.
The accident happened shortly before 4:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Summercrest Apartments, 8655 Pitner Road, in the Spring Branch area.Witnesses told News2Houston that they saw the suspect pull Jose Soto from underneath his pickup, drop him on the ground and then flee."After he ran over my kid, he just got off his truck and pulled him out and (threw) him, and then took off," Jose's father, Jose Soto Sr., said."I can't think of anything worse to do," Houston Police Officer Pete Araiza said. "He got out, took the bike out, and then took off while the kid was laying on the ground. The man that did it came over here and, we understand, was trying to borrow money, got mad when he couldn't borrow the money and he backed up real fast and hit the young man on the bicycle."Children were among the witnesses to the accident."I thought that he was going to go get the cops but he didn't," said Shantelle Cuevas, 7, a witness. "The truck just passed him and he hit the little boy.""It was just terrible, you know. It makes you want to cry because (it was) a 6-year-old little boy," said Cynthia Cuevas, a witness.Paramedics rushed Jose to Ben Taub General Hospital, where he is listed in critical condition."The doctor says that they are going to have to wait another two or three days to make sure that he's all right," Jose Soto Sr. said.Soto said that he and his wife pray the suspect is caught.Investigators said that witnesses managed to get a partial license plate number of the metallic red, late-model Ford F-150 pickup, which is Texas plate 5TC.The red pickup also had "fender skirts", authorities said.Police said that they are searching for the driver of the pickup.Anyone with information is asked to contact the Houston Police Department's Hit & Run Division at (713) 247-4065.
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