The 8-year-old girl who was hit by an out-of-control driver in Queens was killed in front of her family during a \u2026<\/b>
\nThe 8-year-old girl who was hit by an out-of-control driver in Queens was killed in front of her family during a shopping outing for her brother\u2019s 17th birthday, heartbroken relatives said Saturday. Jashanty Cole had just left Jimmy Jazz in Jamaica around 5:30 p.m. when a Range Rover came barreling over the curb along 164th Street, hitting the girl and at least one other passerby,65-year-old Yuniang Cong. Cong also died from her injuries, cops said. \u201cWe came out of Jimmy Jazz, shopping for her brother\u2019s birthday, and a couple minutes later, I heard a car coming but did not know from where,\u201d the girl\u2019s legal guardian, Phylecia Harris,71, said Saturday from the family\u2019s Springfield Gardens home. The family was shopping ahead of Cole\u2019s 17-year-old brother\u2019s birthday, which falls on Halloween. The distraught teen held his face in his palms Saturday in the family\u2019s home. \u201cShe was very well known in the neighborhood,\u201d Harris said of his sister, a third grader at P.S.045 Clarence Witherspoon in Queens. \u201cShe was a very happy girl. She loved gymnastics, and she was an artist who designed some of her own clothes.\u201d Police are investigating the cause of the crash. The driver,47, told cops she lost control of the vehicle.<\/p>\n