Thursday’s hit-and-run that killed a Brooklyn 4-year-old marks the second tragedy for his family, who lost the tot’s oldest brother in a gruesome shooting.
Little Zachariah Padilla will be buried in white alongside his older brother, Elijah Wright, who was gunned down last year, their grieving mom told The Post.
“Why God keeps taking my children. Why don’t he take me? Why he takes them?” Harmonie Wright cried from her Brownsville home.
“This is a child. That’s my child … my flesh of my flesh, blood of my blood. Now it’s finished.”
Elijah Wright, 21, was killed last year after he was shot five times, Harmonie said, though she declined to share additional details about her oldest son’s death.
Zachariah’s tragic death occurred Thursday morning just minutes after he and his mother left Brookdale Hospital.
The pair was getting the boy’s paperwork, including his immunization papers, in order to be in compliance for school.
Zachariah dashed into the street, where he was hit and then run over by a Ford SUV, which sped away from the scene of the tragedy and left the injured boy on the ground, cops and Wright said.
“We were going back home and now I’m hurt and not only did he hit my son … he hit him. I banged on the car … and then I got hit, too,” Wright said, crying at times.
“How do you run over a child? Something gotta be wrong with you because you ain’t gonna win. Know that we winning, know that you losing,” she continued, pledging justice for her son.
The boy was rushed back into the hospital, where he had just exited with his mother.
Doctors conducted chest compressions for 30 minutes while Zachariah bravely fought for his life before ultimately succumbing to his injuries.
“Zachariah, let me tell you what he said, he said, ‘Mother, God has a lot of children. He said ‘I’m an angel,’” Wright said proudly of her son.
“That was a boy they kept working on. They [didn’t] want to give up on him. They said we’ve seen trauma every day, but this one is something different and it’s breaking my heart. I just buried a child, my other child. This is hurtful.”
Wright has just one surviving son, Joseph, who was slightly older than Zachariah.
“My house sounds silent. There is no noise,” Wright said.
“It hurts. I’m a little disturbed right now, but God says, ‘I’ve got him’ and I’m gonna bury him in all white because he’s an angel.”
Wright pledged to pursue justice for little Zachariah, whose murderer is still on the loose.
“He was my last child. His name is Zachariah Padilla and we are gonna fight and we are gonna win,” she said.
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