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State troopers: Drunk driver kills construction worker in Marrero

LSP
Louisiana State Police

A construction worker is dead after state troopers say a drunk driver passing through a construction zone hit him.

That crash happened just after 3:30 a.m. Saturday on the Westbank Expressway near MacArthur Avenue in Marrero.


According to state troopers, Isaiah Mayes, 24, Marrero, struck David Allen Smith, 36, Missouri, while passing through the construction area. Investigators say Smith was walking near the right shoulder of the open lane when Mayes hit him. Mayes allegedly kept driving along the elevated highway before exiting at Ames Boulevard and abandoning his car.

Mayes is facing vehicular homicide, hit-and-run involving a fatality, and other charges. He was booked into the Jefferson Parish Jail.