BROWNSVILLE, Brooklyn (WABC) — A heartbroken mother described her unimaginable loss after her 4-year-old son was killed by a hit-and-run driver in Brownsville, Brooklyn on Thursday morning.
“My house is silent. I don’t hear no noise. All my boys make noise. I’m hurt right now,” said the victim’s mother, Harmonie Wright.
For the mother of six, two of her three sons are gone. Her oldest, 21-year-old Elijiah Wright, was shot and killed last year, and the youngest, Zachariah Padilla, who was killed by the hit-and-run driver.
“He’s an angel. He’s an angel. His name is Zachariah. That’s my last child,” Wright said.
It was rainy and gloomy Thursday around 11 a.m. when Harmonie Wright and her kids were leaving urgent care across the street from Brookdale Hospital. As she was reaching for her phone inside her purse, Wright says the 4-year-old was splashing in the puddles and playing Peppa Pig, and in a snap, bopped into the intersection of Rockaway Parkway and Linden Boulevard into oncoming traffic.
“I looked at the light. Tried to catch him. I couldn’t catch him but the guy hit me too, but I went into mommy mode,” Wright said. “I got up. I don’t even know I was hit. My adrenaline was so high I didn’t even know the car hit me. I saw my kid flying. He dragged my kid 150 feet, and then he ran away.”
The child was thrown, landing right in front of the emergency entrance. The 44-year-old mother picked him up and rushed him inside.
“They want to know how you feel. You cannot imagine how a mother feels. Flesh of my flesh. Blood of my blood, and I’m right next to the hospital, and it hurts,” Wright said.
The NYPD is still searching for the driver of a white Ford SUV that just kept going.
Wright had a message for that driver.
“I want to say right now, love will win before he. And it’s no heart in place,” she said. “You can’t go over it. You can’t go under it. You just going to have to go through this.”
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