{"id":411263,"date":"2025-11-28T19:54:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T19:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/411263\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T19:54:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T19:54:14","slug":"boy-11-dies-after-escondido-hit-and-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/411263\/","title":{"rendered":"Boy, 11, dies after Escondido hit and run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An 11-year-old boy who was struck in a hit-and-run on an Escondido street earlier this week has died, police said Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The collision happened about 5 p.m. Wednesday on East Washington Avenue near North Hickory Street, according to Escondido police. The department said the boy was taken to an area hospital, then flown to Rady Children\u2019s Hospital in San Diego. He later died.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/justice-for-aiden-support-the-torres-de-paz-family\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">verified GoFundMe<\/a> created to help the boy\u2019s family states the boy was \u201ca beloved child full of life, love, and innocence\u201d and that his family is \u201cshattered.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The post identifies the child as Aiden Antonio Torres De Paz. \u201cAiden deserves justice,\u201d it reads.<\/p>\n<p>Police have not released further details about the collision, including whether investigators have a description of the vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>Escondido police ask that anyone with information leading to the identification of the driver call Officer Paul Smyth at 760-839-4423.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An 11-year-old boy who was struck in a hit-and-run on an Escondido street earlier this week has died,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":190407,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,1582,276,5295,10087,1370,728,50,8738,3549,3550,7264,7289,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-411263","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-crime-and-public-safety","12":"tag-escondido","13":"tag-latest-headlines","14":"tag-local-news","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-north-county","17":"tag-san-diego","18":"tag-san-diego-county","19":"tag-sandiego","20":"tag-top-stories-sdut","21":"tag-united-states","22":"tag-united-states-of-america","23":"tag-unitedstates","24":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","25":"tag-us","26":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115629081549133156","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=411263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}