
A four-year-old boy was killed in a hit-and-run accident in Brooklyn on Thursday morning, just minutes after leaving a hospital with his mother, in a tragedy that comes barely a year after the family lost another son to gun violence.
Police said the incident occurred around 11:09 am near the intersection of Linden Boulevard and Rockaway Parkway. The child, identified as Zachariah Padilla, had just exited Brookdale Hospital with his mother when the accident happened.