A boy who was hit by a school bus more than a week ago has died, according to his father. <\/p>\n
The driver of the bus allegedly committed a hit-and-run, leaving the scene of the accident without giving aid to the critically injured 14-year-old, according to the Dayton Police Department. <\/p>\n
The accident was reported about 6:30 am on Friday, October 16th on US 90 at Stilson Road, where police found the boy, Brantley Connor severely injured by the side of the road.<\/p>\n
He was taken to a hospital, where he was fighting for his life, according to his father, but passed away this past Thursday. <\/p>\n
Brantley was in 8th grade at Woodrow Wilson junior High School in the Aldine ISD. <\/p>\n
The bus driver, now identified as Ricky Eugene Cherry, was arrested several hours after the accident, and was charged with collision causing bodily injury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A boy who was hit by a school bus more than a week ago has died, according to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":476041,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57,66,223,27],"class_list":["post-476040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-local","tag-news","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}