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D.C. Witness Staff
- March 19, 2021
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Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) detectives are investigating a traffic fatality that happened on the afternoon of March 1.
According to preliminary investigation, at around 3:53 p.m., officers responded to the 2400 block Virginia Avenue, NW for the report of a pedestrian struck.
“The preliminary investigation revealed a vehicle was traveling northbound, in the center lane, on the ramp to I-66 under Virginia Avenue, Northwest, when it struck a pedestrian, outside of a marked crosswalk,” the press release states.
The pedestrian, 72 year-old Maryland resident Desrick Cooks, was taken to a hospital with non-life threatening injuries. On March 18, he succumbed to those injuries.