Woman arrested in hit-and-run that hospitalized 9-year-old boy

Family at the bedside of a 9-year-old boy still recovering after being hit by a car on the way to school May 12 has heard the news they’ve been waiting for since that traumatic day.

Police have arrested the driver accused of running the child down in the empty parking lot of a shopping center on Minnesota Avenue in Northeast D.C. and then driving away.

The Metropolitan Police Department said following an investigation, it arrested 34-year-old Atoya Smith of Hyattsville, Maryland on the charge of leaving the scene of a collision…

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