LAS VEGAS (FOX5) — Exactly one month after a middle school student was fatally hit while walking to school in the northwest valley, FOX5 Investigates learned the intersection where he was struck was flagged as unsafe weeks beforehand.
Cristofer Suarez, 12, was struck in a suspected DUI hit-and-run crash on Oct. 3. He spent the weekend on life support at UMC before passing away on the following Monday. His mother told FOX5 that Cristofer had a mariachi performance the night he was hit. He was on his way into J.D. Smith Middle School early to practice.
“He was very smart, and that is the thing that is hurting me the most, and I feel like I can’t cry anymore,” said Martina Suarez, Cristofer’s mother…