 A northern Minnesota community is in morning after a 7 year old student was hit by a car and killed as he waited for the school bus. Parents, teachers and faculty struggling with the loss of second grader Anthony Feldman. He was waiting at the bus stop this morning around 7 a.m. when tragedy struck. Ryan Laughlin has the story from Thief River Falls. This is awful. Anytime anything like that happens. Anthony Feldman was waiting with two other students at the bus stop in front of his house this morning. The southbound bus pulled right up to his driveway but somehow Feldman ended up in the northbound lane. The 7 year old boy was trying to cross the highway and was struck by another vehicle. A minivan. The speed limit is 60 miles per hour on the highway and state patrol is still investigating what happened. In the meantime, the community is grappling with grief. A heartbroken for the family and for his friends. I'm so sad for this community. It's a second child we've lost in the last several months. I can't even imagine it's going to impact everybody. The school is offering help. How I would approach it is I'd say you know I heard something happen at school today with you know a second grader and and I'd start with what I know. The school is offering counseling for students and has advice for parents on how to tackle the tough topic. One of the things that's really clear with young people is we don't give them inaccurate perceptions like Anthony went to sleep okay and those kind of things it's really important to use the right vocabulary to speak truth and and even in those harsh words yet Anthony's dead okay and he's not coming back. School officials say classes were not interrupted and most students weren't aware of what happened until after school. We're going to get through this you know I've had a chance to talk with a family today they're doing as well as can be expected. Don't be afraid to talk about it and to I always refer to as talk about the elephant in the living room it's a difficult topic. This is the second incident in just four months in Thief River Falls in July a 14-year-old boy was hit crossing the road on his bicycle. If you've enjoyed this segment of Lakeland news please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland Public Television.