CHICAGO - A growing memorial marks the spot where 9-year-old Anakin Perez was killed by a car Thursday morning, just steps from his school.

While school officials are calling it an accident, Perez's family says surveillance video shows it should never have happened.

What we know:

Friends and family members gathered Thursday evening at the spot where Perez, a fourth grader at McNair Elementary school, was killed while heading to school.

Video from a neighbor's surveillance camera shows Perez rushing through their front gate to cross the street to the school around 9 a.m.

The video shows him run in front of a car driven by a woman who had just dropped her own child off at the school.

"He jumped out in front of you. It doesn't matter," said Anna Perez, the boy's aunt. "There was no

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