PHILADELPHIA - The heartbroken family of a Philadelphia teen who police say was fatally struck by a driver in a stolen SUV shared their grief hours after his death.
James Sanders, 16, and a 21-year-old man were struck by a suspected impaired driver in the crosswalk of 44th and Parrish streets around 10 p.m.
Wednesday. The driver, later identified by police as 27-year-old Zaire Semaj Adams, struck three unoccupied parked cars before coming to a stop.Tasha Sanders-Diggs, the boys mother, said she ran to her gravely injured son after he was struck.
James Sanders, 16, was fatally struck by a driver in a stolen SUV Wednesday night in West Philadelphia. "I thought me running to him, that I can help, that he could feel me next to him, and he’ll be okay," Sanders-Diggs told FOX 29's Jeff Cole. "I kept saying ‘James just push.