YAZOO CITY, MS. (THECOUNT) — Shea Erica Parker, of Yazoo City, Mississippi, has been identified as the pedestrian fatally struck by a vehicle.
Parker, 39, was killed while on-foot after being struck by a vehicle on Highway 49 in Yazoo City.
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The Yazoo County Sheriff’s Department say, officers responded to a call of a vehicle-versus-deer. When police arrived, they determined that it was instead a person that had been struck.
Officials believe that Parker was walking northbound in the right lane of Highway 49 when she was struck by a 2004 Chevrolet Trailblazer, reports WLBT.
Parker was pronounced dead of blunt force trauma.
The incident remains under investigation by Mississippi Highway Patrol.
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Geo quick facts: Yazoo City is a U.S. city in Yazoo County, Mississippi. It was named after the Yazoo River, which, in turn was named by the French explorer Robert La Salle in 1682 as “Rivière des Yazous” in reference to the Yazoo tribe living near the river’s mouth – Wikipedia.