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A growing memorial has formed as community members stop by to pay their respects to the little girl who lost her life after being struck by a vehicle while riding her bike to school Tuesday morning.

The incident has left the community in mourning.

David Griffin, who lives near the intersection, became emotional discussing the tragedy.

"I got seven grandsons and one granddaughter, I got grandkids, and I see how these kids just doing what a kid do, just playing or whatever.," Griffin said. "But this child was just going to school, and her parents were looking for her to come back home and now she gone."

The crash happened around 7 a.m. at the intersection of Longview Road and Food Lane. A man driving a white transit van hit the girl. This marks the thir

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