7-year-old boy hit by a pickup truck dies in his father's arms

Gabriel was a kid with a life ahead, cut short by a pickup truck that has it invested and killed.

The job of parents is to raise, love and protect their children. But what happens when suddenly for a tragic accident in a single moment the son stops living?

How can you resign yourself to the death of a child with a whole life ahead of you, with dreams and projects. How can you survive with the guilt of not being able to save your child, of not protecting him on the worst day of his life?

What the parents are left with are unanswered questions and a trauma they will never forget.

Unfortunately life is sometimes unfair and fate interrupts people's journey in a moment of any day. Francisco Garate and his son Gabriel on a tuesday evening they were headed to the park of Long Beach, California, to go play baseball.

The tragic fate of Gabriel hit by a pickup truck

While Gabriel was crossing the street on the pedestrian crossing it was invested by a pickupat the intersection of Lakewood Boulevard and 23rd Street. The pickup truck driving down the road did not slow down at the sight of pedestrians, nor at the crosswalk signal. He was behind the wheel of the pickup James Burnes a 57-year-old man who said he had not seen the child.

James Burnes remained at the scene of the crash until officers arrived, arrested him for involuntary manslaughter and released him soon after alcohol and drug tests which came back negative.

Little Gabriel died instantly as his father took him in his arms. The motherto Dawne Garate she couldn't even say goodbye. Grief-stricken, she describes Gabriel as a happy, intelligent boy with a great personality.