Memorial held for boy killed by out-of-control car in Midwood
MIDWOOD — Mourning the death of 10-year-old Enzo Farachio who was killed when he was struck by an out-of-control SUV while he was waiting for a bus on a busy Midwood thoroughfare, members of Families for Safe Streets and elected officials joined the boy’s family at the intersection where young Enzo was struck down to demand that the city tackle the issue of street safety, once and for all.
The group gathered on the evening of Thursday, Sept. 12, at Ocean Avenue and Avenue L.
“The only word you can use is tragedy,” Jane Martin-Lavaud, a member of Families for Safe Streets, whose daughter Leonora was killed by a speeding driver at Avenue U and East Fifth Street in 2013, told this paper. “A 10-year-old boy was struck and killed so we have another family that will spend a lifetime grieving.”