SHREVEPORT, LA. (THECOUNT) – Joe Heads, of Shreveport, LA, has been identified as the pedestrian struck and killed by a vehicle early Saturday morning in Shreveport.
Heads, 36, was reportedly walking in the 4100 block of Marston Avenue near Greenwood Road, in Shreveport, around 4:30 a.m. when he was chased into the street by several dogs and struck by a passing vehicle.
After he was mowed down a pack of dogs allegedly attacked him as he lay bleeding in the street, according to witnesses.
According to the Shreveport Police Department, the original call was about an animal complaint. The caller said that a male had been bitten by many dogs. When officers arrived to the scene, they discovered 36-year-old Joe Oliver Heads, struck by a Cadillac after being chased by a dog into the roadway. source
The 24-year-old driver of the vehicle voluntarily submitted a routine impairment test, and investigators do not believe he was intoxicated
Heads was transported to a Shreveport hospital where he was later pronounced dead.
This investigation is still pending.
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