A 16-year-old cyclist was struck and killed by a sedan driver at Exposition Park Friday afternoon in a possible road rage incident, authorities said.
The driver fled the scene after the incident in the parking lot of BMO Stadium, a park near downtown Los Angeles, shortly after 4:30 p.m., authorities said.
About 40 bicyclists were pedaling south on Figueroa Avenue, just north of Martin Luther King Boulevard, when the group and the driver of the sedan, California Highway Patrol Trooper John Johnson, came across the group. An argument broke out with the manager. Dan Keene told reporters at the scene. Keene said the driver followed the group through an opening in the fence and into the stadium parking lot, where he struck the victim. The Highway Patrol said in a press release that the teenager died at the scene.
No arrests had been reported as of Saturday afternoon, and a description of the driver and vehicle was not available.
Keene said the incident should never have happened and urged the driver to come back and speak with investigators. “No parent should have to go through that,” he says.
Anyone with information is asked to contact the CHP Southern District Major Crimes Unit at (323) 644-9550 or the Los Angeles Communications Center at (323) 259-3200.
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