Boy fatally struck by car while skateboarding at west Houston apartment complex

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Houston police investigate after a 7-year-old boy lying down on a skateboard was fatally struck at an apartment complex in the 2300 block of Hayes about 7 p.m. Tuesday, April 4, 2017. (Metro Video)

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Houston police investigate after a 7-year-old boy lying down on a skateboard was fatally struck at an apartment complex in the 2300 block of Hayes about 7 p.m. Tuesday, April 4, 2017. (Metro Video)

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Houston police investigate after a 7-year-old boy lying down on a skateboard was fatally struck at an apartment complex in the 2300 block of Hayes about 7 p.m. Tuesday, April 4, 2017. (Metro Video)

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Houston police investigate after a 7-year-old boy lying down on a skateboard was fatally struck at an apartment complex in the 2300 block of Hayes about 7 p.m. Tuesday, April 4, 2017. (Metro Video)

Photo: Metro Video

The 7-year-old boy fatally struck by a car Tuesday evening was playing with his skateboard at a west Houston apartment complex, police said.

The woman who hit the boy, a mother driving with three small children, did not see the boy because he was lying down on the skateboard, police said. She was not intoxicated.

Houston police said the boy was taken from the apartment complex in the 2300 block of Hayes in the Briarforest area to a hospital, where he later died.

Authorities did not expect to seek charges in the case.