Twenty-two-year-old Marquise Byrd died Friday at an Ohio hospital after he was hit in the head by a sandbag thrown from an overpass

Four teenage boys have been charged with murder in an Ohio juvenile court in connection with the death of a man struck by a sandbag thrown from an interstate overpass.

Prosecutors filed the charges Tuesday in Toledo against the boys, ages 13 to 15, The Toledo Blade reported.

The teens initially were charged with the juvenile equivalent of felonious assault.

Marquise Byrd, 22, died Friday at a hospital.

The driver of the car, who has not been identified, suffered minor injuries.

The Warren, Michigan, father of a one-year-old boy was sitting in the front passenger seat of a car traveling south on Interstate 75 in Toledo when a sandbag smashed through the windshield on December 19.

The Lucas County Coroner's Office says Byrd died of blunt-force trauma injuries to the head and neck.

Police and a prosecutor have said the teens threw other objects from the overpass that night.

Byrd, who was engaged to be married, was on his way to visit friends in Toledo.

Byrd was a front-seat passenger in a southbound vehicle on Interstate 75 (above) in Toledo, Ohio, when he was struck by a sandbag

The vehicle in which Byrd was sitting on December 19 is seen in the above photo

His family is demanding that authorities charge the four teens as adults.

'I would appreciate if [the boys' parents] could at least call my auntie and tell her they're sorry,' Byrd's cousin, Shaveontae King, told the Blade.

King said Byrd was like a brother to her.

When asked to describe him, she said: 'Young, energetic, outgoing, lovable. He had a bright smile.'

Officers received a call at 10:10pm on December 19. They responded to the scene and saw the teenagers leaving the area after the incident.

Prosecutors filed the charges Tuesday in Toledo against the boys, ages 13 to 15. One of the suspects is seen right

So far, Ohio prosecutors said there are no plans to transfer the teens' cases from the juvenile department to adult jurisdiction. One of the teens is seen above second from right

King said she has no sympathy for the teens and wants authorities to charge them as adults.

'My auntie has to bury her son. He's gone. He's never coming back,' she King said.

'She's holding up the best she can.'

So far, Ohio prosecutors said there are no plans to transfer the teens' cases from the juvenile department to adult jurisdiction.

Lori Olender, the deputy chief of the county prosecutor's juvenile division, said that since the teens have no prior criminal records, there is a risk prosecutors would lose if they were tried as adults.