BATON ROUGE — The Baton Rouge Police Department announced that it is investigating the death of a 1-year-old who fell out of a pickup truck before being run over by the vehicle at a gas station near the old Cortana Mall on Friday.
According to the department, the incident occurred around 11:20 a.m. when a 2014 Dodge Ram pickup truck was making a turn in the parking lot. Officers said that while making the turn, the rear passenger door opened, allowing 1-year-old Nicholas Aguilar to fall from the vehicle.
After falling onto the concrete, Aguilar was run over by the truck’s rear passenger-side tire. He was transported to a local hospital, where he later died from his injuries…