{"id":61157,"date":"2025-05-26T12:16:04","date_gmt":"2025-05-26T12:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=61157"},"modified":"2025-05-26T12:16:05","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T12:16:05","slug":"9-year-old-boy-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=61157","title":{"rendered":"9-Year-Old Boy Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" src=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-689.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-61158\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-689.png 640w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-689-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>An adult and three children were hit by a pickup truck near Felix Botello Elementary School in Dallas, according to police<br>Police said 9-year-old Jose Garcia Ledesma died<br>Two other children, including Jose\u2019s twin sister Keyla, were transported to the hospital in \u201ccritical but stable condition\u201d<br>A boy is dead and two other children are injured after being struck by a vehicle outside a Texas elementary school, according to officials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dallas Police Department Assistant Chief Catrina Shead said in a press conference, shared by WFAA-TV, that the three children and an adult were struck by a pickup truck near Felix Botello Elementary School in Dallas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She said police responded to the incident at around 3:30 p.m. on Thursday, May 22. Police shared on X at the time that it was \u201cinvestigating a major accident in the 200 block of south Marsalis Avenue.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shead said that the adult and three children who had been hit by the car on the scene were transported to nearby hospitals by Dallas Fire Rescue. One of the children died from the injuries sustained in the incident and the two other kids were in \u201ccritical but stable condition.\u201d The adult was transported in \u201cstable condition.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The boy who died is 9-year-old Jose Garcia Ledesma, according to WFAA-TV, which cited the Dallas County Medical Examiner\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/9T4hA3DxSOY\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Dallas County Medical Examiner\u2019s Office did not immediately respond to PEOPLE\u2019s request for comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=61104\">also read&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An adult and three children were hit by a pickup truck near Felix Botello Elementary School in Dallas, according to policePolice said 9-year-old Jose Garcia Ledesma diedTwo&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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\/61157"}],"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=61157"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61159,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61157\/revisions\/61159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}