A family filled with grief days before Christmas after a driver hit and killed 11-year-old Hendrix Truesdale Friday morning while he was walking to Coulwood STEM Academy in northwest Charlotte.
Laura Truesdale will always remember her oldest son as her baby.
She said Hendrix loved school and the holidays.
“He just made the A-B honor roll, and I know he was looking forward to Christmas this year,” the mother said.
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A driver of a pickup truck hit and killed Hendrix as he was walking on Gum Branch Road near Summerlea Drive, police said.
“It seems like he missed the bus, and I think he was trying to walk,” Truesdale said. “And me and his dad drove in that direction to see the walk that he had to take, and it’s just no sidewalks.”
Hendrix’s grandmother, Leeora Anderson, said she is making T-shirts for a candlelight vigil.
“He got up that morning and didn’t even know that that was going to be his last journey,” she said.