My lil cousin was killed today. He was run over by truck.... I didn't know him all that well. He was only 4. I am so Sad.
Boy, 5, dies after being hit by truck
(April 14, 2007) — Misael Santiago, who turned 5 last week and liked to play video games, was killed Saturday afternoon in Rochester when he was run over by rental truck.
The boy’s family, relatives and friends grieved at the scene as police worked to determine how Misael was hit at a business that his cousins said is operated by the boy’s parents.
Misael’s grandmother had to be taken to the hospital when she collapsed after the incident, said the boy’s cousin, 19-year-old James Quintana, who struggled to talk about Misael’s April 2nd birthday party at Chuck E. Cheese.
“I was just looking at the pictures last night,” he said.
Gerardina Soto, the boy’s aunt, said Misael was enrolled in a pre-kindergarten program at School 45.
“Everything suggests to us at this point it’s a tragic accident,” said Rochester Police acting Lt. Jeff Koehn, adding that the child was supervised.
Police were investigating the incident, which occurred at 20 Rohr St. about 5:30 p.m., and are questioning the male city resident who was at the wheel of the U-Haul truck.
