Friends and family left candles, flowers, and balloons to memorialize Lucas García, who would have turned 39 the day before the Oct. 7 vigil in Providence. (Colleen Cronin/ecoRI News)
PROVIDENCE — For the second time in three years, a family had to reconcile the death of a loved one at the same busy intersection on Union Avenue. And both families are asking: Why did it have to happen twice?
A school bus driver hit Lucas García, 38, in the crosswalk on the street earlier this month. Violet Barracks, 76, was killed in a hit-and-run in the same place in 2022…