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Family of man struck, killed by car of Syracuse's Jim Boeheim 'devastated'

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SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- Whenever he'd see someone he knew in his neighborhood, Jorge Jimenez would shout across the street in his Cuban accent.

"Hey Papi!" he'd say.

Brian Hernandez, one of Jimenez's four children, said that's the man he wants people to remember. His 51-year-old father was killed on a highway Wednesday night when he was struck by a vehicle driven by Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim.

"I want people to know we're really devastated," Hernandez told ESPN in a phone interview. "People don't deserve to die like this."

Since that day, Hernandez and his family have wrestled with their father's loss.