The parents of a 9-year-old boy are by his hospital bedside after he was injured in a hit-and-run in DC. They’re attempting to explain to him why the individual who ran him over drove away and abandoned him on the ground.
The hit-and-run occurred around 8 a.m. Monday on Minnesota Avenue in Northeast D.C.
“I look back, and my son is on the ground,” Davion Rawlings explained. “She ran over my son and kept going. As I chase the car, I try to stop her, but I notice my son is lying on the ground.
Rawlings said he was driving his son, Zion, to school Monday morning when they decided to stop at a convenience store in a tiny retail area on the 4000 block of Minnesota Avenue NE. Subsequently, a terrifying moment occurred, one that is indescribable and likely to remain etched in memory for eternity.
They transported Zion to the Children’s National Hospital.
Rawlings broke down as he narrated his son’s injuries.
“Broke his pelvis bone, bruised his lungs, so they got him on the tube — it’s hard for him to breathe at this moment,” Rawlings told reporters. “Broken ankle, yeah, swollen face on his right side.”
Tiffany Chambers is doing her best to console her kid, who is in a lot of agony.
“Just how strong he is, how much we love him,” she told me. “Makes us happy he’s able to breathe, smile again,” she went on:
According to D.C. police, the car that hit Zion was a dark blue or gray SUV with an unknown license plate, driven by a middle-aged woman.
Despite his suffering, Rawlings wanted to thank a good Samaritan who came forward that morning in the thick of the horror.
“It was a wonderful woman that came, I don’t know her name, but if she’s seeing this, I want to tell her thank you, because she was the only person that had an initiative to take out her phone and call 911,” he joked.
D.C. police want to hear from anyone who knows or has seen something. There is a $10,000 reward for information that leads to an arrest or conviction.
