Thir­teen-year-old Zion Roop suf­fered sev­er­al in­juries to his head and up­per body af­ter a se­cu­ri­ty ve­hi­cle struck him on Mon­day.

An au­top­sy per­formed at the Foren­sic Sci­ence Cen­tre in St James re­vealed that he died from mul­ti­ple blunt force in­juries to his head, chest and ab­domen.

Con­tact­ed yes­ter­day af­ter­noon, his fa­ther Joel Roop said they had not yet arranged for his fu­ner­al.

Zion was at his La Re­treat Road, Gon­za­les Vil­lage, Guapo home with his two younger sis­ters when his moth­er Afebee Arthur asked to go to the shop to buy some­thing on Mon­day.

Ac­cord­ing to re­ports, Zion was at­tempt­ing to cross the South­ern Main Road near La Re­treat Road when he got hit. The dri­ver of the se­cu­ri­ty ve­hi­cle, an es­tate con­sta­ble with G4S Se­cure So­lu­tions, told po­lice that around 3.20 pm he was head­ing to­wards La Brea in the com­pa­ny’s ve­hi­cle, known as the mon­ey truck, when he saw Zion stand­ing on the left side of the road. He claimed as he got clos­er, the boy sud­den­ly ran across the road. He said he swerved to the left to avoid hit­ting him but he still col­lid­ed with the child. A mo­torist took the child to the hos­pi­tal in his per­son­al ve­hi­cle. Sad­ly, he was pro­nounced dead on ar­rival at the Point Fortin Area Hos­pi­tal.

Po­lice record­ed state­ments from the dri­ver and re­leased him pend­ing an in­ves­ti­ga­tion.

Vis­it­ing the scene was a par­ty of of­fi­cers from Guapo Po­lice in­clud­ing Sgt Ali, Cpl Bood­hai, WC­pl Fred­er­ick and WPC Ash­by. Cpl Bood­hai is in­ves­ti­gat­ing.