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Yesterday afternoon, a campaign bus for City Council hopeful Michael Ricatto fatally struck a 9-year-old boy in Queens, prompting Ricatto to suspend his campaign. Ibrihim Ahmed, a fourth-grader, was crossing at Cross Bay Boulevard and Liberty Avenue, an intersection many witnesses call dangerous (some kids said there should be a crossing guard), in the crosswalk when he was hit. The Post reports, "One witness to the accident said it looked like the vehicle sped up to make a light 'and smacked into the kid' at the busy intersection." The Ricatto campaign RV's driver Alexander Aponte was arrested for driving with a suspended license. Ricatto, who was running for Joseph Addabbo's seat, issued a statement: "My thoughts and prayers go out to the family of the child whose life was taken in this tragic accident. I have children of my own and can't imagine the pain of losing a child in an accident like the one that occurred today. "