‘I can’t bring Mekhi back’: Grandmother’s plea for S Military Highway stoplight

Barbara Brouillette believes her grandson Mekhi Anderson might still be alive today if there had been a stoplight and a crosswalk at the intersection where he was hit and killed by a car in December.

The 9-year-old boy was crossing South Military Highway at Baugher Avenue on December 12 when he was hit by a car. He was pronounced brain dead at the hospital.

“In crossing Military Highway, he was hit by a car and he didn’t make it,” Brouillette said. “I can’t bring Mekhi back. But if a stoplight there helped prevent something like this happening in the future, then wouldn’t it be worth it?”…

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