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• Six-year-old Sebastian Hizey was killed when he was hit by flying debris during a monster truck show in Tacoma, Washington, on Friday, January 17, 2009. Hizey was sitting in the stands of the Tacoma Dome with his family when debris from one of the trucks flew over a safety barrier and struck him in the head.FOX News: Drive Train Eyed in Boy's Monster Truck Death

• Fast Facts

  1. Born: ca. 2003
  2. Died: January 17, 2009
  3. Hizey was sitting in the stands at a Monster Jam truck show when he was hit by flying debris from one of the trucksFOX News: Drive Train Eyed in Boy's Monster Truck Death
  4. Reports said Hizey was about 20 to 25 feet above the Tacoma Dome floor when he was struckFOX News: Drive Train Eyed in Boy's Monster Truck Death
  5. Hizey's father says a large metal ring hit his son's skullFOX News: Drive Train Eyed in Boy's Monster Truck Death
  6. Another spectator was reportedly also hit with flying debrisFOX News: Drive Train Eyed in Boy's Monster Truck Death
  7. There was no immediate word on the unidentified spectator's conditionFOX News: Drive Train Eyed in Boy's Monster Truck Death
  8. Investigators were reportedly examining metal parts from a monster truck's drive train to piece together what happenedFOX News: Drive Train Eyed in Boy's Monster Truck Death

• Quotes

  "I wish we were going to the bathroom, wish we weren't there, wish I was standing up, perhaps it would have missed him. There were a lot of things that could have gone completely differently and he'd still be here."—Jessie Hizey, father of Sebastian HizeyKING5.com (Seattle): Parents of boy killed...overcome with grief

  "We keep playing over in our heads, if we'd been over a row, over a few feet, just anything. It was the most traumatic thing I've ever seen in my life."—Phyllis Dwyer, mother of Sebastian HizeyKING5.com (Seattle): Parents of boy killed...overcome with grief

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