‘Built-in best friend’ Andrew Salgado, 14, dies weeks after bike crash in Miller Place

Andrew Salgado (right) with his older brother Joseph Salgado, and Duck Pond in Miller Place, where community members have created a memorial with soccer jerseys and handwritten letters. (Instagram/@joe.salgado24; Brian Harmon photo) and Duck Pond in Miller Place.

Andrew Salgado, the 14-year-old Miller Place varsity soccer player whose fight for survival galvanized the community for over a month, has died five weeks after a March 24 bicycle accident on Route 25A.

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