Boy struck by car at Tippin parking lot on ventilator; recently moved to EP from Singapore

One of the students accidentally struck by a man in the parking lot of Tippin Elementary is on a ventilator at El Paso Children’s Hospital, according to a man raising funds for the family.

Freddy Klayel identified the Tippin student as Athindra Sathish Kummar, who recently moved to El Paso about a month ago. According to Klayel, Kummar’s father is a computer programmer who relocated his family from Singapore to El Paso.

Klayel said Kummar was pinned between two cars when 58-year-old Roger Hawkins crashed into a car parked in the elementary school parking lot. Klaye says Kummar suffered a collapsed lung as a result of the accident and is currently breathing with the help of an artificial respirator.

“His son was caught in between two vehicles. His chest was compressed. His ribs perforated his lungs. So his lungs had to be drained,” Klayel told ABC-7, “(The boy) has not been given a prognosis as to when he will be off of the ventilator.”

On Monday, police said Hawkins became disoriented when he crashed into a vehicle while pulling out of a parking space at Tippin Elementary. Hawkins allegedly struck three children, including Kummar.

As witnesses and the mother of the two other children hit by the car approached Hawkins’ vehicle, he allegedly ran over 33-year-old Karisma James. The woman died as a result of the injuries she suffered in the wreck, police said. James was the mother of the two other children struck along with Kummar.

James’ children were taken to Providence Hospital and are in critical, but improved condition, police said.

Klayel set up a Go Fund Me account to help Kummar’s family. CLICK HERE to help.

Hawkins has not been charged, although police said the wreck remains under investigation.