Aurora – A 2-year-old boy was hospitalized in serious condition this morning after a hit-and-run in an apartment parking lot.
The boy was walking with his mother at about 11 a.m. outside of the River Falls Apartments in the 100 block of South Sable Boulevard, when he left his mother and headed into the path of a moving car, said Aurora Police spokesman Rudy Herrera.
Police are not releasing the name of the boy or his mother.
Witness Marisol Castillo, 32, said she heard a car approaching and then the sound of a bump. She looked up and saw what she thought was a jacket rolling beneath the car. Then she heard the boy’s mother scream.
“I heard the lady say, ‘My baby, my baby,”‘ Castillo said.
Police say the car struck the boy, launching him several feet before running him over. The driver apparently stopped, looked back and drove off.
Three men tried to grab the driver but couldn’t hold on. One man tried to follow the suspect in a car but couldn’t keep up.
“I just started crying,” Castillo said. “I just thought of my kids. I couldn’t imagine if it would have happened to me.”
Herrera said the boy has “severe skeletal injuries, head to toe.”
Witnesses say the driver was Hispanic, and the car small or mid-sized, green or blue with Colorado plates featuring the numbers 109, 108 or 190. There should be a 3-inch dent in the front, said Herrera, who asks anyone with information to call Aurora Police at 303-627-3100.
Staff writer Jeremy Meyer may be reached at 303-820-1175 or jpmeyer@denverpost.com.
