A boy is dead after he was struck by a Metro Transit bus in Brooklyn Park early Wednesday morning.
Police responded to a report that a juvenile had been hit by a metro transit bus just before 6:00 Monday morning on northbound County Road 81 south of 71st Avenue.
He died at the scene. The boy’s name and cause of death will be released at some point by Hennepin County Medical Examiner’s Office.
No passengers were on the bus at the time. As part of Metro Transit policy, the bus driver will undergo drug and alcohol testing and they have placed the driver on administrative leave.




