Cops are looking for whoever hit and killed a pedestrian on the elevated Pontchartrain Expressway overnight.
NOPD says the hit and run fatality happened around 1:00am.
“New Orleans Police are investigating a hit and run traffic fatality,” Sgt. Barry Fletcher said in an email. “According to investigators, police were called to elevated US Highway 90 Eastbound at the O’Keefe exit on a report of a pedestrian struck.”
He says officers arrived and found the unresponsive victim in the roadway.
“New Orleans EMS confirmed the victim was deceased.”
Fletcher says the driver that hit the victim fled the scene.
“No further information is currently available. ”