GULFPORT -- Kendrell McDonald reportedly was trying to get the attention of his school bus driver when he accidently fell under the wheels and the bus ran over him on Shirley Drive Circle.
Kendrell, 10 years old, was a fifth-grader at Bel-Aire Elementary School. He was pronounced dead at 7:30 a.m. Tuesday at Garden Park Hospital, according to reporter Margaret Baker at http://www.sunherald.com/.
An ambulance transported the student to Garden Park, where he died of ... according to Harrison County coroner Gary Hargrove.
Fifth-grader Running to Catch Bus is Struck, Killed
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Reporter Cherie Ward with www.gulflive.com/mississippipress said witnesses reported that Kendrell was running alongside the school bus when he fell and the back tires of the vehicle ran over him.
Superintendent Henry Arledge and Principal Heather Blenden were with Kendrell's family when doctors told them the youngster had died, according to Ward.
"We just ask for prayers for the family, his classmates and all of us at this point, so we can get through this," Arledge said at http://www.gulflive.com/
Gulfport Fatality: Child Struck by Bus
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