WILMINGTON, Calif.—Police asked for the public’s help July 4 to find the driver of an SUV that fatally struck a 36-year-old man who was lighting fireworks on a Wilmington street.
Paramedics were called shortly after 9:10 p.m. Monday to the 700 block of North Fries Avenue near West G Street, just south of Anaheim Street, according to spokesman Brian Humphrey of the Los Angeles Fire Department.
An SUV was traveling north on Fries from G Street at a high rate of speed and struck the pedestrian, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.
NBC4 said the pedestrian was Juan Arias, and that he was dragged approximately 85 feet before becoming dislodged from the undercarriage of the SUV and getting hit by a second vehicle, the driver of which remained at the scene….