Police are looking for the hit-and-run driver who ran down a 10-year-old boy in the Bronx on Wednesday morning.
Waseem Al Najjar was crossing Lafayette Street on his way to his uncle’s deli for a snack before school Wednesday morning when a dark vehicle hit him at Hunts Point Avenue, family and police said. The vehicle took off after the impact, leaving Waseem motionless in the street.
“Horrible, heartless,” said Hadi Al Najjar, Waseem’s uncle. “I just wish he could feel what we’re feeling now.”
The boy was taken to the hospital in critical condition after the impact. His uncle said the boy suffered a broken hip, internal bleeding and other injuries and had not regained consciousness as of 5 p.m.
Hunts Point Avenue has been identified as a “pedestrian crash corridor” during the planning and public input stages of Vision Zero. It’s also in the top 10 percent of most dangerous streets for pedestrians in the borough.
Anyone with information about the hit-and-run should call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-577-TIPS.
