70-year-old Chalmette man surrenders in hit-and-run fatality early Sunday of Chalmette woman struck on shoulder of the road on West St. Bernard Highway
This is a Drivers’s License photo of Harold Barrett, 70, of Chalmette, who surrendered Wednesday morning at the St. Bernard Parish Prison in the hit-and-run fatality of a Chalmette woman Sunday. Goes with press just sent from which re-writes State Police release to give more details.
Barrett, of 3400 Sinclair St., was wanted on an arrest warrant in the death of Donna Landry, 54, and surrendered at the St. Bernard Parish Prison just before 10 a.m. on New Year’s Day. Landry was killed as she walked the shoulder of the west-bound lanes of West St. Bernard Highway near Madison Street in Chalmette, early Sunday morning.
State Police booked Barrett with negligent homicide, felony hit-and-run and reckless operation. He will go before a magistrate judge on Monday to have bond set in the case.
The investigation is on-going at this time, State Police Troop B said.
Troopers located the vehicle involved in the hit and run fatality and said Barrett was driving a white 2002 Dodge pick-up on the night of the crash. The Louisiana State Police Crime Lab positively identified this vehicle as the vehicle that hit and killed Landry by matching evidence collected on the scene to the damage on the pick-up, state Police said.
The victim was found dead by a passing bicyclist about 5:30 a.m.
For unknown reasons, Barrett drove the vehicle onto the shoulder of the road and struck the pedestrian. The driver then fled and the woman was later pronounced dead on the scene.
Troopers were able to gather evidence from the vehicle at the scene.
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