was killed on Dec. 27<\/a> while walking to the store with his friends on Kennywood Boulevard.\u00a0<\/p>\nThe boy, known as TJ to his family and friends, was remembered as kind, loving and full of life.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“I cannot believe I am burying my child because he was hit by a car,” said Naomi White, the boy’s mother.<\/p>\n
“He was special,” said Terrel Byars Sr., the boy’s father. “He was going to be something special.”\u00a0<\/p>\n
On Tuesday, the boy’s family gathered at the spot where he was killed to remember him.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“I just want him to know I love him, he got siblings that love him and got family that love him,” the teen’s father said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The family confirmed on Tuesday that the 13-year-old boy was not killed in a hit-and-run crash, as the driver returned to the scene. However, they still have questions.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“How many people got to die for anybody to wake up on this road?” White said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The West Mifflin Police Department said it is still investigating the crash, and the driver involved has been cooperative.<\/p>\n
The district said that counseling services will be available when school resumes on Jan. 5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A balloon release was held on Tuesday for the 13-year-old boy hit and killed by the driver of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74284,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[894,73,75,74,24903],"class_list":["post-74283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-allegheny-county","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-west-mifflin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}