Fifteen-year-old LeBron has most of the skin taken off his back after he was dragged by a hit-and-run driver in Redondo Beach. The crime was caught on doorbell video.
, hitting him squarely, and trapping him and his bike under the front bumper.
"I felt my hands on the cement, burning as he dragged me for at least half a block," LeBron said, explaining he was trying to keep his head up, as his helmet flew off his head, thinking if his head hit the ground, "I’d be dead." The truck, caught on ring video, came to a stop. That’s where you see LeBron getting up. The driver backs up enough to dislodge the bike and proceeds to drive away. "He never asked if I was ok, or anything else" said LeBron, who was taken by neighbors to his home and ended up in a hospital. The skin has been taken off most of his back, his legs, and his hands.
"It’s a miracle he’s alive" said his mother, Christina, who is taking time off from work to take care of him at home. She is a single mom of two, and can not afford the bills coming in for LeBron’s care, which is why neighbors and friends have put together aMore than anything, though, she wants the driver caught. "Why would he just drive away? Who does that," she said. Redondo Beach Police want to know the same thing.
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