A bicycle rider who was killed in a hit-and-run collision in the South Park neighborhood of South Los Angeles was identified Thursday as a 37-year-old homeless man.
Los Angeles Police Department officers responded to the 700 block of East Vernon Avenue between Avalon Boulevard and McKinley Avenue at 7:25 p.m. Wednesday regarding a person down, Officer Charles Miller told City News Service.
Officers found the bicycle rider lying in the street and contacted Los Angeles Fire Department paramedics, who pronounced the victim — identified by the Los Angeles County medical examiner’s office as Efrain Rivas Martinez — dead at the scene.
He was unhoused, according to the medical examiner’s office.
Witnesses told police they saw a motorcycle rider leaving the scene, but could not provide a description, police said.