{"id":60569,"date":"2025-05-23T08:03:25","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T08:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=60569"},"modified":"2025-05-23T08:03:25","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T08:03:25","slug":"father-was-hold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=60569","title":{"rendered":"Father Was Hold."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-537.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-60570\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-537.png 1000w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-537-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-537-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-537-768x768.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A father and his 1-year-old son died after they were hit by a car while crossing the street in Jacksonville, Fla. on May 16<br>Mitchell Patch was an elementary school math teacher, whose students \u201cwill miss him tremendously,\u201d the principal said<br>Patch\u2019s wife and family are \u201cheartbroken,\u201d the wife\u2019s employer wrote on a GoFundMe page<br>A mom is grieving after her husband and 1-year-old son were killed while crossing the street in Jacksonville, Fla.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mitchell Patch, an elementary school math teacher, was walking across Baymeadows Road with his son, Everett, when they were hit by a Honda Civic traveling eastbound at 8:30 p.m. local time on Friday, May 16. Emergency responders pronounced the father and child dead at the scene, the Jacksonville Sheriff\u2019s Office said in a statement. The driver of the car was taken to a local hospital and is cooperating with officials. Officer Max Morel confirmed the names of the father and son and told PEOPLE the investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOur hearts are with the family and friends of the man and his child,\u201d the sheriff\u2019s office said in the statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Duval County Public Schools, Patch\u2019s employer, and the City of Jacksonville Medical Examiner\u2019s Office did not immediately respond to PEOPLE\u2019s requests for comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That evening, Patch attended a party at a restaurant. He was holding his toddler in his arms when he crossed the road, Morel confirmed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe were in the middle of a rush when it happened. Next thing you know, we just started seeing flashing lights. It started getting bigger. So we kind of figured something more intense happened,\u201d Dylan Williams, manager at Wicked Barley Brewing Company, told local outlet WJXT.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe had a large group of family members mourning,\u201d he added. \u201cIt was very tragic.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=60438\">also read&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A father and his 1-year-old son died after they were hit by a car while crossing the street in Jacksonville, Fla. on May 16Mitchell Patch was an&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60570,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60569"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60569"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60571,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60569\/revisions\/60571"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/60570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}