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[Tripon]

When the only choice for little La’Darious Wylie was save himself or save his 7-year-old sister as a car bore down on them, La’Darious did not blink. He did not stop. He did not falter.

The tiny boy with the huge heart saved his sister.

La’Darious lunged and pushed his sister, Sha’Vonta, out of the way at the school bus stop in Chester Oct. 27, said Elizabeth McCrorey, the mother of both children.

“He knew to look out for her,” Elizaberth McCrorey said.

Her daughter told the police what happened and that by the time she was able to get up, the car was gone, McCrorey said.

Unanswered questions don’t haunt La’Darious’s mom, though. “I don’t hate her,” McCrorey explained. “I just wish she had stopped.” The mother is focused now on just moving forward and honoring her beloved son, for whom a funeral was held on Thursday of this week. “She donated his organs [so that] her son could save another child’s life,” Robinson wrote on a GoFundMe memorial page that she set up for the McCroreys.

Local authorities was able to find the person who committed the hit and run and arrested her.

Chester Police have made an arrest in connection with the hit-and-run crash that killed an 11-year-old boy who was waiting at a bus stop.

Michelle Johnson, 57, was booked into the Chester County Detention Center at about 8:30 p.m. Thursday. She is charged with hit-and-run in an accident involving death, according to Chester authorities.

http://www.heraldonline.com/news/local/news-columns-blogs/andrew-dys/article42716781.html
http://www.heraldonline.com/news/local/crime/article41785470.html
http://www.heraldonline.com/news/local/crime/article41909022.html

Not sure what else to say except that I don't know if I could make that split decision to save another person. La’Darious did to save his sister and he paid with his life with it. I'm sharing the story because I think more people should be aware of the sacrifice this kid made because he cared about his sister that much to give his life for her.


There is a go fund me set up by his family to help with memorial costs.

https://www.gofundme.com/jt7hwr9g

Edit:

https://www.yahoo.com/parenting/11-year-old-sacrifices-himself-to-save-his-little-170958262.html

Robinson is not alone in her appreciation for the selfless fifth-grader. A local civic group has started an online petition to rename Chester’s Brooklyn Park — near the site of the crash — the La'Darious Wylie Park of Brooklyn. The gesture “would be an honorable way to remember him,” Chester County Supervisor Shane Stuart told The Herald, calling the idea “fitting.”

 

[M52B28]

My god. So tragic..

I don't have much to say. It's just surreal to read this.

 

[Dead Man]

Jesus, that poor family. Kid did fucking awesome.

 

[buddha0991]

RIP little hero

 

[Jenenser]

RIP.

 

[Amon37]

A damn hero.

 

[Tenebrous]

What an awesome kid.

 

[Ashhong]

Damn, what kind of person do you have to be to hit a kid at a bus stop and flee the scene? Hope she gets life for running

 

[Triggerhappytel]

Such a sad story. Brave little boy to so selflessly save his sister like this. I hope the fucker who was driving the car is put away for one count of murder and another of attempted murder, and the courts come down on her extra hard for fleeing the scene.

 

[GraveHorizon]

Man, these heartbreaking stories involving children this week are really getting to me. What a hero.

 

[rjinaz]

I always wonder what I would do in situations like this, and here is an 11 yr old kid that sacrifices himself without thinking even though everything inside himself has to be screaming to survive. The human race should be proud for this moment.

 

[HarryKS]

Good older brother. That's how it's supposed to be.

Bad situation. All around bad situation.

 

[MultiCore]

That kid is a hero to his sister. I hope she remembers him fondly later, and isn't wrecked with guilt.


That lady... Hit and run?
Throw the book at her.

If you make a mistake, stop and own up. Thinking she's gonna get away? That infuriates me.

If she hit my kid and left, I'd be petitioning for maximum penalties.

 

[PHOENIXZERO]

Even has heroic as saving his sister is this is still an awful story because a child was needlessly killed by some piece of shit who didn't even have the decency to stop afterwards. Nice response on the GoFundMe account, hope the excess money is put into a college fund for his sister.



People "praising God" in stories like this in comments do my head in.