Crime & Safety

Police Need Help Locating Hit-and-Run Driver who Killed a Pedestrian

The crash happened Sunday night. Were you a witness?

Detectives from the Los Angeles Police Department’s Valley Traffic Division today asked for the public’s help in finding a driver who struck and killed a pedestrian in North Hollywood and then fled.

The crash occurred at 11:25 p.m. Sunday when a black Jeep Cherokee struck a pedestrian at Burbank Boulevard and Beck Avenue, throwing him into on coming traffic where he was struck for a second time by a vehicle described as possibly a 1990s light-colored four-door sedan. The driver of the second vehicle is the one being sought.

The pedestrian died from injuries at a hospital. He has not been positively identified, but was a white man believed to be 31 years old.

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Anyone with information about the crash was asked to call (818) 644-8021 or (818) 644-8115.

--City News Service

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