Police are looking for the driver of a livery cab accused of leaving the scene after hitting an 8-year-old boy in Brooklyn.
The Daily News says Frankelly Acevedo was taken to Brookdale Hospital on Friday evening.
He was bleeding badly and suffered head injuries. But a neighbor says the little boy still tried to comfort his mother. He told her not to cry.
He was thrown about 20 feet by the impact.
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Witnesses say he and other children were playing near a fire hydrant when the accident occurred.
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