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Man killed while walking on 5 Freeway in Commerce

By Corina Knoll
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A man in his 50s who was walking on the southbound 5 Freeway in Commerce was killed early Sunday after being struck by two vehicles, authorities said.

The victim was walking north about 2:50 a.m. in the traffic lanes of the freeway just north of the Triggs Street exit when he was struck by a motorist who left the scene, said Officer Cheyenne Quesada, of the California Highway Patrol.

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The man was hit again by a driver in a white Toyota Corolla in the No. 1 lane who then pulled off the freeway and called authorities, Quesada said. The victim was pronounced dead at the scene. It was unknown why he had been on foot.

All southbound lanes in the area were closed for about three hours. East Los Angeles CHP personnel is investigating the incident.

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— Corina Knoll

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Corina Knoll

Corina Knoll is a former reporter for the Metro section of the Los Angeles Times. She was on the team that investigated corruption in Bell — which led to the paper’s 2011 Pulitzer Prize for public service — and went on to cover the trials of the city’s former officials. She later contributed to the paper’s coverage of the San Bernardino terror attack that won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for breaking news. As a regional reporter, she wrote features about the San Gabriel Valley and the Westside. During her courts beat, she covered high-profile criminal cases and civil disputes, including the Jackson family vs AEG and Bryan Stow vs LA Dodgers. She and two colleagues investigated sheriff’s deputies whose histories of misconduct landed them on the department’s top-secret Brady list. She left The Times in January 2019. Raised in the Midwest, she is a graduate of Macalester College.

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