Anna Perez stood in the middle of North Cicero Avenue in Austin on Friday afternoon, cars passing by her to the left and right slowly as she implored drivers to honk their horns.

“Justice for Anakin!” she called out a day after her nephew, Anakin Perez, 9, was fatally struck by a car while on his way to McNair Elementary School .

On the sidewalk, her family, young students in maroon collared shirts and community members chanted with her. A day after the fatal collision, Anakin’s family gathered near the school to demand justice after the driver was released without criminal charges.

“He (was) a child that (was) just excited to go to school,” Anna Perez, Anakin’s aunt, told the Tribune Friday.

Anakin was struck by a light-colored Chevrolet sedan traveling westbound at around 7:40 a.m.

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