Atlanta police are investigating after a pedestrian was fatally struck by a vehicle on I-285 early Thursday morning, authorities said.
Police were called to I-285 North near Langford Parkway in Fulton County, where they found an unresponsive man around 1:30 a.m. The preliminary investigation revealed that the man was in the road when a driver struck him, police spokesman Officer Anthony Grant said.
The man, identified by the Fulton County Medical Examiner’s Office as 26-year-old Tyler Tenney of Atlanta, was pronounced dead at the scene. The driver remained at the scene and was “cooperative” with officers during the investigation, police said.
Grant could not say why Tenney was in the road or if he was previously driving on the interstate and had stepped out of his vehicle.
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