An NYPD patrol unit was stationed outside Yeshiva Ketana of Bensonhurst on Monday, hours after a 4-year-old boy was killed and a 6-year-old boy injured after police say they were struck by a 76-year-old driver who had just dropped them off. (Staten Island Advance/Kyle Lawson)
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Hours after a 4-year-old boy was struck and killed by a vehicle in Brooklyn, family of the 6-year-old who survived the ordeal convened at the hospital.
According to the boy’s older brother, he was asking for his friend, Yoshi Balaban, who police said was pronounced dead at the scene.
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