EAST BATON ROUGE PARISH, LA. (THECOUNT) — Kerriel Joseph, of Hammond, Louisiana, has been identified as the victim in a Wednesday night fatal vehicle crash in East Baton Rouge Parish.

Joseph, 22, was killed in a two-vehicle crash near Baton Rouge just before midnight Wednesday.

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According to reports, Joseph was traveling as a passenger in a Hyundai Elantra on 500 block of Interstate 12 in Baton Rouge, when for unknown reasons, the vehicle pulled to the shoulder. The vehicle was then rear-ended by a Chevrolet Silverado around 11:40 p.m. Wednesday.

Joseph was killed in the crash.

No other detail of the crash were provided as of Thursday afternoon.

The cause of the crash remains under investigation.

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Geo quick facts: East Baton Rouge Parish is the most populous parish in the U.S. state of Louisiana. As of the 2010 census, the population was 440,171. The parish seat is Baton Rouge, Louisiana’s state capital. East Baton Rouge Parish is located inside of the Baton Rouge, LA Metropolitan Statistical Area – Wikipedia.