Boy Buried After Crash Involving NBA's Lamar Odom
NEW YORK (AP) -- Neighbors have buried a teenager who died when a motorcycle collided with a vehicle carrying Los Angeles Lakers player Lamar Odom and hurtled onto a New York City sidewalk.
Police spokesman Paul Browne said a motorcycle tried to turn left in front of the chauffeured Cadillac Escalade sport-utility-vehicle that Odom was riding in on Thursday.
The motorcycle hit the front bumper of the SUV and went out of control in the Woodside neighborhood of Queens. It struck 15-year-old Awsaf Alvi Islam, and he died on Friday from head injuries.
Mourners gathered on the sidewalk in front of the mosque on Monday and bowed their heads in prayer around Islam's plain wooden casket. Members of a local mosque took up a collection to pay for the burial.
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