(L.A.) Edgar Ortega, 33, Died on the 110 Freeway

Case Number: 2024-03963

Los Angeles County is reporting the death of a 33-year-old Latino male that occurred on a highway in the Vermont-Vista area.

The coroner’s office has identified the man as Edgar Ortega.

Manner of Death: Accident

Cause of Death: Traumatic Injuries

RIP EDGAR HOYOS ORTEGA (January 20, 1991 – March 6, 2024)

Formal pronouncement of death was made on Wednesday at 3:29 a.m.

The decedent was a pedestrian who was fatally hit by a vehicle on the Harbor (110) Freeway in South Los Angeles.

California Highway Patrol officers had been sent to the freeway near the Manchester Avenue on-ramp. They found the body on a southbound lane.