LAS VEGAS ( FOX5 ) — A child struck by a vehicle in a suspected DUI crash has died, the family told FOX5.

The 12-year-old boy, identified by the family as Cristofer Suarez, died Monday. His mother, Martina Suarez, said the boy had been on life support.

“He’s brain dead,” Suarez said. “Today is going to be his time of death, and I’m so mad.”

Cristofer Suarez, 12, died Monday after being struck by a vehicle in a suspected DUI crash near Eastern and Owens avenues in Las Vegas. (KVVU)

The crash occurred Friday, just before 8 a.m., near the intersection of Eastern and Owens avenues. Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department officials said Cristofer had just stepped off a curb in a school zone when he was struck by a vehicle.

The driver, later identified as Oh’Ryan Brooks, 27, did not in

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