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Alyssa Castillo, age 5, Pasadena - 2008/09/23 15:03
from Houston Chronicle, 9/23/08
Alyssa Castillo, 5, died Sept. 16 when she was struck by a pickup while riding her bicycle on the street in front of her home in the 900 block of Kerry.
Neighbors said Alyssa was behind a large pile of brush and tree limbs left along the darkened street when she suddenly darted into traffic.
"It was clearly an accident. He (the driver) didn't see her," said Liz Bias, president of the neighborhood association.
On Monday, a makeshift memorial — a wooden cross, some flowers and a few stuffed animals — remained on the grass in front of the girl's home.
"She was a good girl. She liked to help everybody," said Luz Oralia Tovanche, staring at a photograph of her smiling granddaughter in the center of the memorial arrangement.
Alyssa had just started her kindergarten year at Pomeroy Elementary when Hurricane Ike struck.
"She wanted to go back to school. She wanted to see her friends and teachers," Tovanche said.
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