Police: Person struck, killed by train in Louisiana

NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — The New Orleans Police Department is investigating after a person was struck and killed by a train Wednesday morning, June 11.

Officers were alerted of a crash in the 3300 block of Earhart Boulevard of the B.W. Cooper neighborhood around 9:19 a.m. NOPD officials said investigators later determined that the crash happened on the Amtrak train tracks at the Norman C. Francis Boulevard overpass over Interstate 10.

Responding officers learned the subject was struck and pronounced dead on the scene.

NOPD officials said the case is being investigated as an unclassified death…

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