Update: Police say a 14-year-old has been arrested in a hit-and-run that left a 6-year-old boy critically hurt over the weekend in an East Harlem park. His mom tells CBS2 he is now home recovering.
Police said the suspect was riding a moped on a pedestrian walkway inside Thomas Jefferson Park when he struck the child around 6:30 p.m.
"I just saw my son on the floor, not moving, and him just stood there with the motorcycle in his hand, that's all," the boy's mother, Nereida Diaz Marin, told CBS2 at the time.East Harlem hit-and-run suspect wanted as 6-year-old boy fights for life after weekend crash The child, named Henry, was rushed to NYC Health and Hospitals/Harlem with a brain bleed and multiple skull fractures. He was later transferred to New York Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center in critical condition.
Police said the suspect initially stayed on the scene, but left before officers arrived. His name has not been released given his age. "He just stood there. He just stood there, just watching. He was just, like, there. And he didn't say anything at all. He didn't say sorry for the accident or sorry for jumping into your son, nothing," Diaz Marin said."And then when he heard the ambulance and the police was on the way, he left."
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