INDIANAPOLIS — IMPD is looking for the vehicle that hit and killed a man on the city's southwest side late Tuesday.
The crash happened just after 10:30 p.m. on Harding Street (State Road 37) at Epler Avenue, which is just south of Interstate 465.
Police said an off-duty civilian IMPD employee notified dispatchers of what appeared to be a person down in the road on the highway.
First responders found a man who had been hit by a vehicle. The man, identified as 50-year-old Charles Smith, was pronounced dead at the scene.
An IMPD spokesperson said the vehicle that hit Smith fled after the collision. Wednesday morning, police said there were no witnesses to the crash, no information on the striking vehicle and no arrests have been made.
The investigation into the incident is ongoing. Anyone with information is asked to contact Crime Stoppers of Central Indiana at 317-262-TIPS.
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