Tania Salazar's son, 14-year-old Jayden Flores, told her Thursday morning that his ankle was hurting him.

“I have to get new shoes for you later today, okay?” she recalled telling him before he left the family’s North Bellmore home.

Not long after, Salazar said she received a call from Flores' school, Wellington C. Mepham High. “They just told me that something happened, he was riding his bike and then he was taken to the hospital,” she recalled in an interview Friday. When she arrived at the scene, she said, she saw police cars, then her son’s e-bike.

Flores was traveling westbound on Alice Avenue at 7:05 a.m. Thursday when he was struck by a 2025 Chevrolet SUV going south on Bellmore Avenue, according to the Nassau County Police Department. The name of the driver was not released.

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