A 16-year-old boy is tonight in critical condition at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after being knocked down on Saturday night.
At around 8 on that night Delvoy Castillo and a few of his friends were riding their bicycles from Partridge Street onto Cemetery Road when he was knocked down by a grey car that was heading into the city. The impact launched the 16 year old into the air and he landed onto the sidewalk causing major head trauma and a broken leg. While that is terrible enough it did not end there. Delvoy's friends say that two men who were in the vehicle then picked him up, placed him in the car and said they were taking him to the hospital but they never did. Family members say that as they were heading to the hospital to check on Delvoy they were told that the badly injured 16 year old had been left inside the vehicle which was just parked in front of the Cleopatra White Health Center. By any estimate he had been abandoned inside the vehicle for at least a couple of hours and now the family is simply outraged at what happened.
Delvoy's Mother,
"My son got knocked down by a vehicle. I don't even know the person that knocked down my son but all I know is that my son is in the hospital fighting for his life. The doctor told me that he can't do nothing for my son but God...we sit down and we pray. Everybody come out and pray for my son, we pray for my son, everybody come out. All I want to tell the person who knocked down my son is if he could please come and tell me why he left my son by Cleopatra White Hospital. Because he was bringing my son to the hospital and he left my son by Cleopatra White Hospital in his car and he gone. When we listened, we heard he went into the police station and when he got into the police station, I heard they let him go; they didn't keep him in the police station in custody. All I want is for that person to please come forward and tell me why he left my son to die in that car because my son is serious in the hospital. My son took a CAT Scan yesterday for $500 and if we didn't have that money, my son would have been in the hospital right now. He is fighting for his life on his bed, serious serious serious. I was at home when they came and told me my son got knocked down. We were heading to the hospital and then they showed me my son in a vehicle left to dead. The doctor told me that because he took so long to come, he had given up on him. He said that it was 50/50. All I want is for the person to please come up and tell me why he left my son in that vehicle to die. That is all I want."
Alfonso Noble,
So had you all not reached on the scene what would have happened to your son?
Delvoy's Mother,
"My son would have died if we hadn't reached on the scene because no one knew that my son was in that car. No one knew."
Alfonso Noble,
So the men who knocked him down, picked him up and put him in the vehicle and then...
Delvoy's Mother,
"Said that he was bringing him to the hospital and the farthest he got was by Cleopatra White Hospital Saturday night and he abandoned the vehicle."
Alfonso Noble,
If you are to see this person right now face to face like you are to me what would you tell him?
Delvoy's Mother
"All I would ask him is why he left my son to die. My son's life right now is 50/50. My son is not an animal. My son is a human being. You knocked my son down, you could drive to the hospital gate at least because security is right there and they could have picked up my son and taken him inside."
Castillo's family claims that police are yet to charge the driver of the vehicle for knocking him down.
