Police identify victim in fatal hit-and-run
Published 8:54 pm Friday, February 23, 2018
GULFPORT (AP) — Mississippi police are searching for a driver who struck a pedestrian in a fatal hit-and-run.
The Sun Herald of Biloxi cites a release by Gulfport police Sgt. Josh Bromen that says police were on their way to conduct a welfare check when they found a man lying unconscious in the road. The man was identified as 53-year-old Lawrence Ducksworth.
Ducksworth had been hit by a car and died late Wednesday at a hospital. The Gulfport Police Department Accident Reconstruction Unit is investigating.