8-year-old boy on bicycle recovering after hit-and-run in Fort Worth: "He was covered in blood," mom says.

An 8-year-old boy is recovering after he was the victim of a hit-and-run on Friday while riding his bicycle in Fort Worth, police said.

Police were called to the 3600 block of Vela Lane just before 8 p.m., where a black SUV had hit a child before fleeing the scene near the Mercantile Square Apartments.

Baylea Christiansen said witnesses reported the driver of the black SUV hit her son, 8-year-old Liam Park, and drove over him before the driver got out of the vehicle, looked at the injured boy and left.

Liam said he was playing with friends, riding his bike, when he was hit by a car.

"My friend tried to tell me that a car was coming, but I didn't know because I didn't hear him, and I turned my head, and it just kind of hit me," he said.

"A few of their friends came running in our door