Monday, February 6, 2012 - 1:28pm
BATON ROUGE, LA (NBC33) — The Baton Rouge Police Department reports that JC Veasley, Jr. of East Brookstown Road in Baton Rouge was killed on Friday, Feb. 3 during a traffic accident.
BRPD responded to the call of a pedestrian struck by a vehicle on Greenwell Springs Road. It happened just after 9:00 p.m. on Friday. When they arrived they found Veasley, 56, lying in the roadway.
Officials say Veasley was attempting to run across the road and went directly in the path of a Dodge Ram. The driver of the truck was not arrested or ticketed. However, the incident is still under investigation.