14-year-old boy riding bicycle dies in Miami Beach crash, police say

Alton Road traffic closed during homicide investigation

MIAMI BEACH, Fla. – When a 14-year-old boy didn't return home on Saturday, his parents were able to track him with an app to the scene of a crash in Miami Beach.

It was there where they learned that their son, a student at Miami Beach Senior High School, died at the scene, while riding his bicycle.

Miami Beach Police Department's spokesman Ernesto Rodriguez said they were investigating the fatal crash involving a pickup truck. 

"The vehicle remained on scene and [the driver] is cooperating," Rodriguez said in an e-mail. 

Police officers closed Alton Road in both directions at 50th Street, and they were asking drivers to use 63rd or 47th Streets as alternate routes. The road reopened about 6:30 p.m. 


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