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Yes, across the bridge, no less. This tragedy has upset me so deeply that this is the first time I've opened this thread. I've avoided the news reports, too. I do think the driver will be found soon, fwiw.Local, agree 100%. As a child of the French Quarter, no one but locals could conceive of that maze AND get to Gretna. Jefferson parish police should be looking for the sedan & NOPD looking at all CCTV from that night. What a horror!!
May you rest in peace, young man.
Almost a year has gone by since a tourist was killed in a hit and run and his body dragged for miles from the French Quarter to the West Bank.
Now, a year later, Josh Woodruff's family says they will never stop fighting to find his killer.
"There is a killer out there. There is somebody who killed our son," said the victim's mother, Caren Woodruff.
"We can tell you we have been stymied in our efforts to get specific things accomplished, and those that have gotten accomplished seem to have only happened because we pushed and then still seem to take a long time - longer than independent advisers that we have suggest is normal," said the victim's father, Mark Woodruff.
We reached out to the NOPD about that. They tell us they have an open line of communication with the family and they're working hard to solve the case and to bring the Woodruffs some closure.
It may have been in the link I posted earlier but I did read that pedestrians ran after the car while screaming. It's not like they just stood there with their hands in their pockets. I hope.
The young man had called for an Uber. He was standing off the curb and in the crosswalk when the incident occurred. It's a law to yield to pedestrians in the crosswalk.
On Thursday, police released new images of the vehicle that is believed to have hit Joshua Woodruff, 28, before ejecting his body on the West Bank early on New Years Day 2016. They also announced that a homicide detective is now leading the investigation.
The blurry surveillance images released Thursday follow the dark-colored sedan that apparently hit Woodruff at Dumaine and Decatur streets through various streets in the French Quarter. Woodruffs body was then carried onto Interstate 10 and across the bridge before being deposited near an exit in Algiers.
Police said they are still trying to determine the make and model of the car that hit Woodruff. The vehicle had distinctive silver window trim as well as distinctive tail lights, Barrere said.
The new images that were released include perspectives of the car from many different angles. Homicide Det. Robert Barrere said the car has some "distinctive" features, and police are hoping that someone will know its make and model, or even be able to point them to the driver.
"We have yet to identify exactly what that car is, and thats the key right now," Barrere said. "I think once we ID that vehicle we can really move forward and progress the investigation."
Police have not been able to get a full license plate number for the car, and said determining its make and model would go a long way toward narrowing that information down.