{"id":125733,"date":"2026-02-06T22:59:33","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T22:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/125733\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T22:59:33","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T22:59:33","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-community-remembers-11-year-old-hit-and-killed-in-bath-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/125733\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Community remembers 11-year-old hit and killed in Bath Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s now a growing memorial at the intersection of <a href=\"https:\/\/brooklyn.news12.com\/11-year-old-girl-identified-after-deadly-school-bus-crash-in-bath-beach-driver-arrested\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bath Ave and 23rd Ave in honor of Amira Aminova.<\/a> Police say she was crossing the street when she was hit by a turning school bus Thursday afternoon. She was rushed to the hospital but didn\u2019t survive.<\/p>\n<p>Police have identified the driver as 62-year-old Wawa Aurelus. Investigators say he didn\u2019t stay on the scene but was later arrested and charged with failing to yield to a pedestrian. <\/p>\n<p>Officials say the driver received a desk appearance ticket and will be arraigned Feb. 24. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There&#8217;s now a growing memorial at the intersection of Bath Ave and 23rd Ave in honor of Amira&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125734,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[54176,98,100,99,3662,8939,9189,9,24,63,3058,50909],"class_list":["post-125733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-bath-beach","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-fatal","tag-fatal-crash","tag-fatal-hit-and-run","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-school-bus","tag-school-bus-crash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}