Car Fatally Hits Boy, 6, in Front of His Georgia Home

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Abel Aquino-Torres was fatally struck outside of his home in Lawrenceville, Ga.

The kindergarten student was crossing the street around 9:20 p.m. local time on Saturday, Nov. 15

"He was my partner. He was my mini me," the boy's father, Juan Torres, said of his son

Abel Aquino-Torres, 6, died after a car hit him on the family's neighborhood street in Lawrenceville, Ga., on Saturday, Nov. 15.

The Torres family had returned home from a birthday party and Abel decided to go for a bike ride around 9:20 p.m., his father, Juan Torres, told WSB-TV . Although Juan says that he told Abel that it was too late, he eventually agreed that the boy could take a lap around the neighborhood.

But before Abel could cross the street, a car struck the kindergartner. “The car was going very