Police arrest man accused of killing woman in New Orleans East hit-and-run

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NEW ORLEANS ( WGNO ) — An arrest has been made after a woman was hit and killed by a vehicle in the West Lake Forest neighborhood of New Orleans East earlier this month.

Officials with the New Orleans Police Department said 22-year-old Seth Anthony West was arrested in connection with the hit-and-run that happened on Saturday, April 20 in the 8500 block of I-10 Service Road.

An investigation revealed that at 8:39 p.m., West, who was reportedly driving a Nissan 370Z, crashed into a woman who was walking eastbound on the shoulder of the road.

West drove off after the crash and the woman was pronounced dead on the scene, according to NOPD officers.

They said that on April 28, they found the Nissan, which led to them identify West as the suspect in the crash. He was arrested and booked into the Orleans Parish Justice Center on charges of hit-and-run driving involving death or serious bodily injury and of obstruction of justice.

The Orleans Parish Coroner’s Office will release the victim’s identity after an autopsy is done and the family is notified.

Anyone with additional information on the crash can call NOPD Traffic Fatality District detectives at 504-658-6205.

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