7-year-old child dead, father hurt after South LA hit-and-run

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Nov 6, 2026
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A child is dead and his father recovering
in the hospital this after a hit and run in South L.A.
Now neighbors are speaking out.
Fox 11's Ed Laskos live right now with more. Ed.
And Christine, all of this after that deadly hit and run takes the life
of a little boy only seven years young. He's hit along with his dad,
his dad in the hospital, serious condition.
And now we're learning two vehicles, two cars involved in this.
The driver of the first car stops, tries to help,
but it's that second car. The driver just kept going. And that second
car and the driver is the target of the manhunt tonight. Watch.
South LA, a very busy Figueroa and 77th.
It's the very spot where it happens.
I just heard like a loud, like a smack,
like something made contact with metal.
And I came out here, I ran out here
and immediately I saw a lot of like people, a whole group of people.
This is what he sees, a group of people,
a chaotic scene, everybody out just trying to help.
After this, check it, the security video,
look to the upper left, that's the father and his son walking.
When it appears the boy stumbles right onto the street,
he and his father are hit, they're both down.
That's when I seen the man on the floor.
I didn't even know there had been a child at the time.
But I'd seen everybody was surrounding
and that's when I found out a man had been hit.
And now we know the 37-year-old dad
and his 7-year-old son hit by not one, but by two vehicles.
The first car stops, but that second car never stops.
It just keeps going.
We'll release a video. We're just looking for one thing.
That one thing detectives are looking for is that second car,
thought to be this one here.
A dark four-door sedan speeding away after hitting the little boy
and hitting him right in front of his own apartment.
To be so close to home, across the street, that really hurts.
Neighbors now left hurting
and warning about the dangers on this stretch of Figueroa.
Look how dark it is here, huh?
Most of the streetlights, they're out.
Yeah, we have to be careful.
Because it's really dark.
Yeah, and dangerous.
It's dangerous too, yeah.
Dangerous for a dad and his son just out for a walk.
They're always walking, the father with the son in hand.
Then the other hand, the father's holding a dog.
He's always walking with them.
He's always careful with that boy.
He's always looking out for that child.
And now live, no wonder so many in the neighborhood
are taking this one really hard.
They knew the dad.
They knew that little boy.
I can tell you a $50,000 reward is posted now.
They want the driver of that second car.
A lot of the neighbors say someone has to pay for this.
They want justice.
For now, we're live here downtown.
Back to the west side we go.
