Document: Traffic Fatality in Southeast

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Metropolitan Police Department detectives are investigating a traffic fatality involving a pedestrian that occurred on Sept. 4, at the intersection of Wheeler Road and Southern Avenue, SE.

At approximately 8:29 p.m., a driver that is operating a vehicle that was traveling northbound on the 900 block of Southern Avenue, SE. A pedestrian started to cross Southern Avenue. Injuries were caused when a vehicle failed to stop at a red traffic light on Southern Avenue and struck a pedestrian in the intersection.

The decedent has been identified as 25-year-old Jasmine Butler.

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