Police are searching for a suspect after a hit-and-run collision in Los Angeles left a teenager dead on Saturday.
According to the California Highway Patrol, the Exposition Park Department of Public Safety received a report for a hit-and-run crash on state property, within the park in an outdoor parking lot.
Investigations revealed that at about 4:30 p.m., an altercation occurred between a group of bicyclists and a person behind the wheel of a vehicle in the area of Figueroa Street, north of Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. That altercation continued into a parking lot on Exposition Park property.
It was in that parking lot where the driver struck a 16-year-old Hispanic boy. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
His name was not released.
The driver fled the scene after the collision. No information about the suspect and the suspect’s vehicle has been made publicly available.
Anyone with information regarding this incident is encouraged to contact the Major Crimes Unit at 323-644-9550 during normal business hours or the Los Angeles Communication Center at 323-259-3200 after hours.