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Boy dies after being hit by car while rollerblading
By MELLISSA TOPEY | Thursday, October 1, 2009 12:38 AM

Michael Gisondi

Family and friends remember the "beautiful blue eyes" of an athletic 13-year-old Sandusky boy hit by a car while rollerblading Monday night.

After suffering severe head injuries, Michael Gisondi was pronounced dead at 12:02 p.m. Tuesday with his mother, grandmother and loved ones at his bedside.

Michael's mother, Tammy Buckley, described her son as a great kid who loved hanging out and joking.

"He would bat those big blue eyes to get what he wanted," Buckley said of her youngest of three children.

In an assignment for Adams Junior High, teacher Babe Howland asked each student to say who they most admired.

Instead of a sports figure or celebrity, Michael wrote "my mom," Howland said.

Now Buckley's youngest child will help others.

"I'm donating his organs so no one has to go through what I'm going through right now," Buckley said through tears.

The last people to see Michael conscious were friends he was rollerblading with. By the time Castalia resident Deborah Lane saw him, it was too late.

Michael was apparently on his way home after rollerblading with a group of friends in the parking lot of Furry Elementary School, said Darrin Stanley, his mother's fiance.

He was told to be home by 8 p.m. At 7:47 p.m., he was hit by a 2001 Oldsmobile Alero on Strub Road, just east of Campbell Street. He was wearing dark clothing, and Lane, the driver, said she swerved and braked to avoid him but struck him as he attempted to cross the road, according to law enforcement reports.

Lt. Darryl Edge of the Sandusky post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol said Lane was reportedly traveling at 45 mph, the posted speed limit.

Edge said alcohol was not a factor.

The crash remains under investigation. No citations had been issued as of Tuesday evening.

In a 911 call, a distraught Lane told dispatchers a boy skated out in front of her and was not moving.

Buckley said she spoke with Lane.

"I told her it was an accident. I don't want her to hurt," Buckley said.

Buckley said the incident happened less than a mile from their home -- a home that is now in need of Michael's jokes, his family said.

The last time his grandmother, Sherry Ebinger, saw him was as she was leaving his house on Sunday. Michael was jumping on a trampoline and wanted her to stay.

Ebinger said her grandson loved the outdoors.

"His mom was always telling him 'You better be in before it gets dark -- you have to get a bath and get ready for school," she said.

His mother's fiance described him as a typical, "rambunctious" kid with pretty blue eyes.

When asked to talk about Michael, Ebinger's first comment was also on Michael's eyes.

Michael recently transferred to Perkins Middle School from Adams Junior High.

Carolyn Esposito, his seventh grade English teacher at Adams, said Michael had many friends there and the school would have grief counselors available.

She remembers a boy with a great personality who loved to joke around and play with his friends.

She said he loved playing football for the Sandusky Blue Streaks and would talk or write about it in his journals.

"He was an all-American boy," Esposito said.

Buckley said the funeral is scheduled for Friday at Evans Funeral Home in Norwalk.

A fund has been established in the name of Michael Gisondi at Citizens Bank for anyone wishing to help the family cover funeral costs.