How do you explain this!

How do you explain this kind of stuff to your 6 year old. Last night while trick or treating My daughter was telling us that a boy in her class was killed while riding his bike. I asked her teacher and it is true. This little boy was in her class I went to the local newspaper web site to find the article and below is what I found. Yes it is a good time to talk about drugs and alcohol being bad but still he was her friend. She said he always made her laugh and all the kids liked him. She told me she was sad because he was 6 and so is she. The one thing I find extremely IRONIC is that this all happened the day before Red Ribbon week started. My heart is broken for his mother and hope that she can some find a way to cope with all of this.




Boy, 6, dies after being run over, police say

02:14 AM PDT on Monday, October 17, 2005



The Press-Enterprise

RIVERSIDE - A 6-year-old Riverside boy died Sunday afternoon when he was run over by his father outside their home, Riverside police said.

Police arrested the father, Nathaniel Wade Porter, 43, after a preliminary investigation at the scene, police said.

Porter was booked into the Robert Presley Detention Center in Riverside on suspicion of gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated, driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs causing injury and violating parole. He is being held in lieu of $75,000, officials said.

Ronnie Nathaniel Porter, 6, died 30 minutes after the accident at Riverside Community Hospital.

Emergency personnel were called to the 3700 block of Verde Street at 1:53 p.m. Sunday.

A witness told police Porter's son was riding his bike in front of the house when Porter drove into the driveway. Porter accelerated as he entered the driveway, drove over the curb, hit his son then rammed the car into the garage, police said.

--Rocky Salmon