Parents grieving the death of their 7-year-old son, hit and killed by an SUV driver in May, are facing charges because police said he was “unsupervised” while crossing the street with his 10-year-old brother.

Jessica Ivey, the mother of 7-year-old Legend Jenkins, told WSOC-TV before her arrest that she had allowed the boys to walk to a grocery store two blocks away from their home in Gastonia, North Carolina, on May 27.

A 76-year-old woman driving a Jeep Cherokee hit the younger boy just before 6 p.m. as he was trying to cross a four-lane road, the Gastonia Police Department said in a press release . He died in a hospital hours after the accident from his injuries.

Legend’s mother and father, Samuele Jenkins, were charged with felony involuntary manslaughter and child neglect in

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