Roy Anthony Randez, the 16-year-old Ceres boy badly hurt when he fell from the bed of a moving pickup truck late last month, has died, the California Highway Patrol confirmed Friday.
While riding on the lowered tailgate of a pickup truck in a school parking lot Dec. 27, the boy fell off when the driver — another 16-year-old boy — accelerated, the CHP reported.
The accident happened at Hidahl Elementary School on East Redwood Road south of Ceres. According to a Modesto Fire Department incident summary, an engine crew was dispatched and found Roy “with traumatic injuries and in cardiac arrest.”…