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By
D.C. Witness Staff
- November 24, 2020
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Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) have identified the victim of a traffic fatality that happened on the evening of Nov. 19 as 42 year-old Latoya Sommers, of Southeast, DC.
The incident happened on the 1300 block of Southern Avenue, SE.
According to a preliminary investigation, at around 5:55 pm, a Mercedes-Benz was traveling northeast on Southern Avenue, SE, when it struck Sommers, a pedestrian not in a marked crosswalk. Sommers was pronounced dead at a local hospital.