Overview
- Mattisyahu Glick, 5, died Thursday morning in New Square while heading to cheder, two days after his mother gave birth to a new baby, according to Matzav.com.
- Community reporting says the incident occurred on Ostilla Street after a bus passed without stopping and the child ran after it.
- He was transported to Westchester Medical Center, where he lost consciousness and was pronounced dead shortly thereafter.
- He is the son of Reb Yekusiel Pinchas Glick and a grandson of Rav Aharon Goldmintzer, the rav of the Skverer kehillah in Yerushalayim.
- Rav Goldmintzer was instructed by the Rebbe to advance planned travel to the United States to arrive before Shabbos in light of the tragedy.