An 11-year-old Detroit boy is dead, struck by two vehicles on Oct. 17, and the Wayne County Prosecutor's Office has decided no one will face charges. In Kym Worthy's Detroit, a child's life on Puritan Street apparently doesn't warrant accountability.

Dominique Woods, Karon Gardner's mother, learned recently that prosecutors would not charge either driver. Their explanation, according to Woods: "they said he was on the yellow lines." A child standing on a line in the road is apparently grounds for a death sentence with no legal consequence.

The first driver struck Karon and kept going. "She hit my son and drove around the block, which is some miles. You left the scene. There should be some charges on you. I don't care if you thought you were going to block some traffic. You hit my son and you kept driving your car," Woods told CBS News Detroit. The second driver stayed at the scene and apologized; Woods forgave her. But the first driver — who fled after hitting a child — faces nothing.

Witness Machelle Pearson held the dying boy's hand. "I've never had to hold a baby's hand and hear him take his last breath. I still live with that image," Pearson said.

The community gathered Saturday for a funeral procession led by a horse-drawn carriage to the intersection where Karon was killed. Pearson and others are demanding traffic safety measures — speed humps, cameras, light-up stop signs — near the park and liquor store where children play. But the more immediate question is why a prosecutor's office won't bring charges against a driver who left the scene after killing a child.

Contrast this with Norwood, Massachusetts, where police are actively hunting for 65-year-old Maciel DeOliveira after he allegedly struck two pedestrians in a crosswalk on Oct. 24 and fled. Norwood police used surveillance footage, witness interviews, and license plate readers to identify him, and they've issued charges: leaving the scene of personal injury and crosswalk violation. The victims in Norwood survived with concussions and wrist injuries. In Detroit, a child is dead, and the prosecutor's office can't find a charge that sticks.

Pearson named the prosecutor directly: "Kim Worthy's wrong. Yeah, we won't stop until we get justice for Karon and his mother." Worthy has served as Wayne County Prosecutor since 2004 — two decades in office in a city where certain victims, it seems, don't rate the same legal protection as pedestrians in a Boston suburb.

Karon Gardner loved the Detroit Lions and wanted to design shoes. His mother said she'll miss him rubbing her feet when they hurt, and asking for everything in the world. The question that remains is what, exactly, a child's life is worth in Wayne County — and why a hit-and-run that kills an 11-year-old produces zero charges while a hit-and-run that injures two adults in Massachusetts produces an active manhunt.