3-year-old killed by driver while making videos with older kids near embankment, mom questions if her 'baby boy' was somehow 'put up there': Cops

A 3-year-old who was filming videos with older boys for social media was mowed down and killed successful Colorado by a hit-and-run operator adjacent a steep embankment, according to his parent and cops. The child's ma says the embankment is successful betwixt the roadworthy wherever helium was killed and their home, which makes her question however helium was capable to "get up" there.

"This is the archetypal clip helium ever went up determination (or) was enactment up there," said Shanice Silver astir her son, Isaiah, successful an interrogation with section Fox affiliate KDVR. "That's what we're trying to fig out," she told the TV station. "Because I can't adjacent get up that embankment."

Police successful Erie, wherever Isaiah was killed, accidental helium was recovered "lying successful the roadway" successful the country eastbound of Mountain View Boulevard adjacent Village Vista Drive. "Dispatch received the archetypal telephone from a motorist who stopped aft observing the child," cops accidental successful a press release. "That idiosyncratic remained connected country and is cooperating with instrumentality enforcement."

Officers and exigency unit responded and attempted lifesaving measures, but Isaiah succumbed to his injuries and died.

Detectives reviewed surveillance footage from the surrounding country aft the find and investigators identified a conveyance of involvement that was successful the country astatine the clip of the "tragic hit-and-run collision," according to police. The idiosyncratic allegedly fled the country aft hitting Isaiah and was inactive being sought arsenic of Tuesday.

"There are nary words that tin easiness the symptom of specified a loss," Erie cops said.

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Silver told KDVR that she heard a commotion portion extracurricular her location and went to cheque what was happening erstwhile she saw Isaiah successful the roadway connected the different broadside of the embankment, on with archetypal responders.

"Our household experienced the benignant of heartbreak nary genitor should ever endure," a GoFundMe launched for Isaiah's household says. "His mother, Shanice, and his father, Mitch, are surviving each parent's worst nightmare — mourning the unimaginable nonaccomplishment of their babe boy. His brother, Elijah, and sister, Aiyana, are grieving the nonaccomplishment of their brother, a enslaved that was taken acold excessively soon."

Describing Isaiah, the GoFundMe says helium was a "joyful, curious, radiant psyche who filled each country with laughter," per the description.

"Our household is wholly heartbroken," an aunt wrote connected Facebook. "Please accidental prayers for our Silver children arsenic they grieve the nonaccomplishment of their nephew and for mama and daddy Shanice and Mitchell."