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   A motorist is in critical condition after being beaten by a   
   large group of people on the city’s east side after his truck   
   struck an 10-year-old boy today, Detroit police said.   
      
   “He got his,” said one witness to the beating who declined to   
   give her name. “He got beat up real bad.”   
      
   Sgt. Michael Woody said officers believe the driver pulled over   
   to check on the child after he was hit around 4:10 p.m. He was   
   then assaulted by people in the neighborhood near Morang and   
   Balfour streets.   
      
   “Our chief indicated there was a large group of approximately 30   
   or more people,” Woody said. “But that’s not to say they all   
   took part in the assault, but they did come out to assist the   
   child, and it was a large group at that time. They could have   
   been from that large group.”   
      
   No additional information was available about the child’s   
   condition, but Woody said he was transported to St. John   
   Hospital.   
      
   Woody said the driver sustained multiple, serious head injuries   
   and was also transported to St. John.   
      
   “He could potentially die,” Woody said.   
      
   Later Wednesday afternoon, a few neighbors milled around the   
   scene, a busy intersection with a gas station, a Happy’s Pizza   
   and a liquor store. Despite the accident, children were still   
   running through the street.   
      
   The Balfour resident who asked not to be identified said she saw   
   the boy get hit by the truck after he and about three other   
   children attempted to cross the intersection to go to a Clark   
   gas station across the street.   
      
   “This little boy was screaming,” she said. “There was a lot of   
   people that came out. It was crazy.”   
      
   She said several other neighbors ran outside when they heard the   
   boy screaming. She said she and family watched as the driver was   
   beaten by a group of men.   
      
   She said that after being beaten, the motorist went to the gas   
   station for help.   
      
   The woman said several children routinely play outside and she’s   
   become increasingly concerned with motorists speeding through   
   the residential neighborhoods along Morang Street.   
      
   She said cars are often “driving up and down the street fast.”   
      
   Woody said the incident isn’t being treated as a hit-and-run   
   case because the driver stopped.   
      
   “The guy never tried to flee the scene,” Woody said. “He got out   
   to check on the child and was assaulted by people in the   
   neighborhood.”   
      
   Woody said police are searching for the individuals responsible   
   for the assault.   
      
   Contact Katrease Stafford: Kstafford@freepress.com or 313-223-   
   4759. Follow her on Twitter @KatreaseS.   
      
   http://www.freep.com/article/20140402/NEWS01/304020159/Mob-beats-   
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