Photos: 7-year-old fatally run over by ice-cream truck

Danisha Mitchell, center, is surrounded by friends and family outside her South Los Angeles home a day after her son, 7-year-old Jamarion Thomas, was run over and killed by an ice-cream truck. (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)

Oct. 23, 2014 10:45 AM PT

Police are investigating how a 7-year-old boy was run over by an ice-cream truck in South Los Angeles on Wednesday night, with witness accounts differing on how it happened.

7-year-old fatally run over by ice cream truck

It’s a trying time for mother Danisha Mitchell. (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)

A memorial has been set up in the 200 block of East 97th Street, where 7-year-old Jamarion Thomas was run over and killed by an ice-cream truck. (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)