LOS ANGELES, CA. (THECOUNT) — Henry Dykes, the South Los Angeles man suffering from dementia who had been reported missing since New Year’s Day, has been identified as the victim fatally struck by a train Saturday.
Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department, who had been seeking Dykes, 64, since Wednesday, was named as the man fatally struck by a Metro Expo Line train in the Exposition Park area of South Los Angeles, authorities said Saturday.
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The case was under investigation as an accident, officials said.
The deadly crash occurred at 12:51 a.m. Friday in the 2000 block of West Exposition Boulevard, according to Margaret Stewart of the Los Angeles Fire Department, reports NBCLosAngeles.
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