The tragic 4-year-old boy who was fatally struck by a automobile in Queens was autistic and had simply gotten residence from his older brother’s funeral when killed, heartbroken kin informed The Put up on Sunday.
“There’s nothing inside me. There’s nothing. I’m empty,’’ stated Michael McDonald, the dad of little Domantea McDonald and 18-year-old Tysheem McDonald, who was shot and killed two weeks in the past.
“I simply got here from burying my [older] son. [Domantea] was solely right here for a break up second to see me. … He wasn’t supposed to go away the world like that,” the shattered dad stated.
Domantea was exterior his uncle’s Jamaica residence on 147th Road round 6 p.m. Saturday after coming back from his massive brother’s funeral when the tot immediately broke away from his mom and bumped into the road, the place he was struck by a Toyota RAV4, household and cops stated.
The little boy’s mom chased after him and was struck within the foot, police stated. The motive force stayed on scene and has not been charged.
“Two in a single month, it hurts,” stated the useless brothers’ uncle, Maurice McDonald.
“We had simply come again from mourning one, and the opposite one died.”
Instantly after the accident, Domantea was nonetheless aware and wriggling on the bottom, screaming for his mom, his father stated. The dad stated he tried to carry his little boy down and hold him stabilized whereas he waited for EMS staff to reach.
“They stated don’t transfer him, so I used to be holding him on the ground, making an attempt to maintain him calm. His eyes had been extensive open. He was making an attempt to stand up. We held him there for nevertheless lengthy it took for the Fireplace Division to get right here,” the dad recalled.
“The hearth truck got here, and so they informed us, ‘Again away from him.’ The man turned him to the aspect to verify if he had any bruises, and Domantea noticed his mom and wished to go to her.”
Domantea then began crawling towards his mother, however after he went about 5 toes, he handed out and died on the pavement, his dad stated.
“I began bugging out. He wasn’t sleepy, but it surely appeared like he was falling asleep. I stated, ‘No, wake him up, wake him up, wake him up!’ ” the daddy recalled.
“He wasn’t respiratory. He died proper there. He didn’t die in no hospital. He died proper right here. I watched him go away his physique proper right here as a result of they let him crawl.”
Police stated the child sustained “extreme head trauma and inside accidents” and was pronounced useless at Lengthy Island Jewish Medical Heart.
The child’s devastated father questioned why emergency responders allowed the child to maneuver and insisted his loss of life might’ve been prevented. The FDNY stated “life-saving operations started as we transported the affected person to the hospital” and didn’t instantly touch upon the dad’s claims.
“Domantea had particular wants. He was probably the most fantastic soul on the earth, probably the most fantastic boy anyone might need to meet,” the dad stated.
His older son, Tysheem, was shot and killed Aug. 7 in what cops suspect to be a gang-related hit, police sources stated.
“Tysheem lived within the streets. I accepted it. That was my son. I couldn’t inform him nothing. His mom couldn’t inform him, his uncles couldn’t inform him. He wished to be his personal man,” the dad stated.
“However he beloved his little brother. He solely met him a handful of instances, and Domantea was very autistic, however when he would see Tysheem, he would go to him. He wouldn’t go to anyone else, however when he noticed his massive brother, he went to him.”
No arrests have been made in reference to Tysheem’s loss of life.
Rodrick Lewis, who lives subsequent door to the household, was surprised by the tragedy.
“The person simply misplaced his older son two weeks in the past, and now he loses his different son. Summer season 2022, this was the summer time a person misplaced two of his sons,” Lewis, 63, stated.
“One was killed, the opposite was hit by a automobile. That’s one thing he’ll take to his grave.”
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