LORAIN — An 11-year-old Lorain boy is out of the hospital after sustaining what Lorain police initially called “serious, life-threatening injuries” in a hit-skip accident early Sunday morning, and a Lorain man faces charges in the incident.Jajuan Malone was flown from Community Regional Medical Center in Lorain to MetroHealth Medical Center in Cleveland after being brought into the hospital around 5 a.m. by Robert Beane, 18, of Lorain, who claimed to be a relative.

Jajuan was treated and released, a MetroHealth spokeswoman said this morning.

According to Lorain police, Beane first told them that the boy was his cousin and that they were involved in an accident on West 21st Street.

Police said Beane could not tell them where on West 21st Street the accident took place and would not tell who was driving the vehicle they were in except to say a “friend,” what kind of vehicles were involved in the accident or where the vehicles were.

Police said Beane also could not give any names of the boy’s family and said that while he knows the boy’s mother, he is not related by blood and that the boy is “like his cousin.”

Beane was charged with endangering children, obstructing official business and contributing to unruliness/delinquency of a child. While Beane was being processed at the Lorain City Jail, police discovered in one of his pockets two small pieces of dark tinted safety glass that appeared to be from a car window.

Police said further investigation found that a car struck a utility pole in the 2900 block of West 21st Street, but fled the scene.

A license plate recovered at the scene by the Lorain Fire Department was traced to a residence in the 3800 block of Beavercrest Drive.

The investigation is continuing.

The boy’s mother was contacted and was reported by police to be on her way to Lorain from Marietta, Ga.

Contact Melissa Hebert at 329-7129 or mhebert@chroniclet.com.