Thursday, February 18, 2010
Boy killed in bus horror
A 4-year-old Brooklyn boy running to catch a school bus was killed yesterday morning when he slipped on ice and fell under the rear wheels of the bus in front of his home, police said.
Amron Altman was declared dead just after 8 a.m. after being struck on 13th Avenue and 49th Street in Borough Park.
"It's a tragedy for all of us," said Rabbi Bernard Freilich, a community activist in the largely Jewish neighborhood. "It's every mother's worst nightmare."
The bus driver, Chaim Zenwirth, circled the block once after he didn't see the boy or his 13-year-old brother waiting at the curb and the boy was struck after Zenwirth had pulled up in front of the boy's home a second time, cops said. Zenwirth, 32, was not charged.
Altman was the second youngest of eight children. His father, a member of the Hasidic Satmar sect, said he "trusts in God's will."
"I donate a part of my family, a part of my blood, to God," he said at the boy's funeral yesterday afternoon.
The boy was then taken to Floral Park Cemetery in Deans, NJ, for burial.
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/brooklyn/boy_killed_in_bus_horror_NldEYqFKOo6dWHjLU5jv2I
Amron Altman was declared dead just after 8 a.m. after being struck on 13th Avenue and 49th Street in Borough Park.
"It's a tragedy for all of us," said Rabbi Bernard Freilich, a community activist in the largely Jewish neighborhood. "It's every mother's worst nightmare."
The bus driver, Chaim Zenwirth, circled the block once after he didn't see the boy or his 13-year-old brother waiting at the curb and the boy was struck after Zenwirth had pulled up in front of the boy's home a second time, cops said. Zenwirth, 32, was not charged.
Altman was the second youngest of eight children. His father, a member of the Hasidic Satmar sect, said he "trusts in God's will."
"I donate a part of my family, a part of my blood, to God," he said at the boy's funeral yesterday afternoon.
The boy was then taken to Floral Park Cemetery in Deans, NJ, for burial.
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/brooklyn/boy_killed_in_bus_horror_NldEYqFKOo6dWHjLU5jv2I
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