Document: Decedent Identified in Traffic Fatality

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After withholding his identity pending next of kin notification, The Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) identified the victim of a Feb. 7 traffic fatality as 42 year-old Sean Burgess.

According to a press release, at around 8:28 p.m. that day, officers responded to the location of the crash for the report of a pedestrian struck.

A preliminary investigation revealed that a vehicle was traveling eastbound in the 1800 block of E Street, NW when it struck a pedestrian, outside of a marked crosswalk.

The victim was pronounced dead on the scene.

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