It was a cool, rainy day when Legend and his 10-year-old brother were shopping with their mother at the local Food Lion grocery store. They asked to make the two-block walk home, where their father was waiting. She allowed them to do so. Instead of walking about 100 yards to the right to the crosswalk, the children sought the most direct route. They never made it. A witness said Legend stepped into the street and was struck before his older brother could pull him back. Samuele Jenkins, their father, was on the phone with the older boy at the time and immediately ran to the scene. Legend was transported to a hospital in Charlotte, about 30 miles away, where he died. Jenkins and his wife Jessica Ivey, who is pregnant, were handcuffed two days after their son was killed. Each parent was initially held on a $1.5 million bond before it was reduced to $150,000. “You’d think they’d at least wait until after we buried our child,” Jenkins said. Legal experts who spoke to NBC News said cas...