Sixty-year-old Viviano Castaneda was identified as the man struck and killed by a hit-and-run driver in Watts earlier this week, according to police.
Castaneda was walking in the roadway near the area of Grandee Avenue and East 103rd Street, near Ted Watkins Memorial Park, about 2:35 a.m.
Friday, when he was struck by a vehicle traveling southbound on Grandee, according to aThe vehicle fled the scene after the collision without the driver stopping to render aid to the man, police said.
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