Police are looking for whoever was behind the wheel of a vehicle that struck a person near the Orleans / Jefferson Parish line on Airline Highway.
"The NOPD is investigating a hit-and-run traffic fatality involving a pedestrian," Public Information Officer Gary Scheets said in an email. "Around 4:36 a.m. a call was received reporting an unresponsive adult male near the intersection of Airline Highway and Livingston Street."
He says when cops got there, they found the victim unresponsive at the intersection.
"He was pronounced deceased at the scene."
