State police identified the 3 year old, who died in a crash as a teenage driver was running away from a police stop, appeared in court on Wednesday to face charges in the child’s death.

According to state police, the 3-year-old was identified as Justin Quiroz of Waterbury, Connecticut. The crash occurred Tuesday afternoon when a drug suspect fleeing police ran a red light, hit an oncoming car head-on and smashed into the boy and three family members, including a baby, who were walking on the sidewalk on South Main Street near West Liberty Street.

The driver, Zekhi Eric Lee, 18, was charged in Superior Court in Waterbury Wednesday with first degree manslaughter and felony evading responsibility.

When police attempted to box in Lee’s car on Edgewood Avenue, he took off, hitting one of the police cruisers with such force it became disabled..Police followed Lee at a distance as he drove at speeds approaching 65 mph on city streets. The warrant states, Lee admitted to police he drove through a red light at the Liberty and South Main Street intersection while in the wrong lane when the crash happened.

Quiroz was pronounced dead at St. Mary’s Hospital after the crash. His mother was in critical condition and airlifted from St. Mary’s to St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center in Hartford, according to police. An 18-month-old and another woman were also hospitalized and were in stable condition, police said.

The 82-year-old driver in the other car was taken to Waterbury Hospital with minor injuries, police said.

Lee is being held on $1.2 million bail and is due back in Superior Court on Dec. 6. He did not have a driver’s license and the car was not insured, police said.