Friends, family mourn 15-year-old killed when driver hit bus bench

The mother of 15-year-old Carlos Ramirez has a message for the strangers who rushed to her son’s side as he lay injured on the ground earlier this month: Thank you.

Ramirez had been sitting on a bench, waiting to take a bus home on the afternoon of June 11, when an unpredictable chain-reaction crash put him in harm’s way.

Police say that when a speeding driver ran a red light, another car hit his vehicle, sending it careening over the curbline and into the bench where Ramirez was waiting…

Story continues

TRENDING NOW

LATEST LOCAL NEWS