Pierre Damas Bel, a Haitian student, died on Monday after his father said he stepped into traffic on Interstate 70.
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Pierre Damas Bel had been a college student for a matter of days.
The 20-year-old from Haiti had just started his first semester at Wright State University, where he was studying neuroscience and beginning to build a life in the United States.

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