13-year-old girl Kira Goddard dies a hero as she saves friends from out-of-control SUV The New York City Local - Yahoo! News:
"A 13-year-old Brooklyn girl died a hero after
shooing other kids out of the way of an SUV - driven by a mortally wounded ex-con -
before it crushed her, police and witnesses said Sunday. Kira Goddard shouted a warning moments before the Range Rover crashed
in front of her Brownsville home, neighbors said.
The decimated Range Rover (Goldfield/NYDN)'She saved them all,' said Lyn Joseph,
36. 'She said, 'Run, run,' to all the other kids, because she saw the car coming. And when she went to move out of the
way it was too late.'
Sean Lewis, who had a stab wound to the torso
, was driving the SUV west on Pacific St. when it hit three double-parked cars near Saratoga
Ave. about 10:10 p.m. Saturday, cops said. He backed up, hit a parked car and flipped his vehicle. The SUV pinned Kira onto the front steps
of her apartment building. She died at the scene.
'She always told me she loved me,' said Kira's devastated father, Wesley Bishop, 59, a
construction worker. 'She last called me to make sure I took my medication - my [blood] pressure pills. She always did.'
Kira Goddard, 13 (Photo supplied by family)Kira often
took care of younger kids on the block, neighbors said. Lewis, 44, was rushed to
Brookdale University Hospital with head injuries in addition to the stab wound, but could not be saved, officials said.
Police are investigating when and how Lewis was stabbed. The city medical examiner will determine his cause of death.
Kira's neighbors said Lewis, who lived in
Bedford-Stuyvesant, was hanging out at a barbecue..
