Father Runs Over and Kills Toddler Son

It's the kind of story that rips your heart out and makes a veteran reporter want to drop his notebook and throw his arms around the grieving couple.

I got the assignment--Monday March 3rd--a sixteen month old boy is run over by an SUV in a garage under his family apartment building off embassy row in DC. At the wheel of that SUV was the boy's father! The mother saw the whole thing, apparently.

It turns out the mother and another woman were unloading one family car and the child wandered away from them. At the very same time the father was getting into a second vehicle-a Honda SUV- to move it forward freeing up a parking space. The toddler walked into the path of the Honda on the passenger front side--totally invisible to his dad.

The child was pronounced dead at Children's hospital

By late afternoon the mother was back at the scene--crying and only able to stand with the help of an official from the nearby Indonesian embassy. DC Police were finishing up processing the scene and hauling the fatal SUV away as part of their probe. No charges and no names were released by Police.

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