3-year-old hit and killed in Kirkland Safeway parking lot

KIRKLAND, Wash. — April 26, 2019 Update: We now know the 3-year-old boy who was killed Thursday after he was hit by a vehicle in a Safeway parking lot.

Family members shared with KIRO 7 photos of Logan Da Silva Miranda.

Our previous coverage below:

A driver hit and killed a 3-year-boy in a Safeway parking lot Thursday. It happened just after noon at the Safeway on 100th Avenue Northeast, just north of Juanita Elementary School.

Kirkland police say the young boy ran out from between two cars into the lane of traffic in the parking lot, when another driver didn’t see him, and hit the boy.

Paramedics tried to revive him, but were not able to.

“I was pulling into McDonald's, I opened my door and I hear the most terrifying scream I’ve ever heard in my life. And I see a mother on her hands and knees just screaming and crying,” said David Newton, who got there right after the crash happened and ran over to help.

“I I saw a toddler on the ground bleeding profusely, and it was really the most horrifying thing I’ve ever seen in my life. It was horrible,” Newton said.

Kirkland police say the driver is an older woman  who was driving at a slow speed.

“She didn't see the child, felt something, heard something, and they stopped,” said Lt. Rob Saloum of the Kirkland Police Department.

Several close friends of the family say the 3-year-old boy is a twin.

“There was an officer holding his brother, trying to keep him to not see what was going on,” said Stori Vickers, who was in the parking lot when the crash happened.

Friends of the family say the boys had just gotten into a preschool this morning and their mom was bringing them to McDonald’s to celebrate, when the crash happened.

“The little one ran off and the woman was backing out -- and you could see on the mother’s shoes there was blood -- it was just awful,” Vickers said.

Kirkland police have not yet confirmed if the woman was driving forward or backing out when the crash happened. But it's something that parents in the area saying they just want to go home and hug their kids tight.
"Just the other day in this same parking lot, I was parked up front and she ran to the car and I'm like you can't do that!" said Lucy Bracken, a Woodinville mom whose daughter is also 3 years old.

“We have a 18-month-old son and that's what we were thinking, it could've been him. It just happened so fast,” Vickers said.

Kirkland police say it doesn't appear that the driver was impaired and that she is fully cooperating.
"I can't imagine what either of them are going through. It's just the worst case scenario on both ends, and it's so sad," Newton said.

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