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Update: Police have identified the victim as 44-year-old Armin Amin-Toomaji, the co-owner of Chaplin’s restaurant in Shaw. Amin-Toomaji and another pedestrian were walking across the street when he was hit by a 2003 Mercedes Benz, according to an MPD report.

“He was being a good samaritan,” Micah Wilder, one of Amin-Toomaji’s business partners told Washingtonian. Wilder says employees reported that “someone was speeding extremely fast and tried to run a yellow light” at the time of the incident.

Original: A vehicle struck and killed a pedestrian early this morning in Shaw. The Metropolitan Police Department is investigating the crash that took place at 9th and P Streets NW around 2:20 a.m.

Authorities took the adult male to an area hospital where he was pronounced dead, according to officer Ralph McLean of MPD’s Third District. The driver of the vehicle remained on the scene and cooperated with police, and “alcohol does not appear to have been a factor,” McLean adds.

D.C. has seen 16 traffic fatalities this year, according to MPD’s traffic safety branch. There were 14 traffic deaths reported in D.C. this time last year. In December, Mayor Muriel Bowser announced the city’s Vision Zero initiative, a plan to eliminate all fatalities and serious injuries that take place in D.C. traffic by 2024.

Police have not released the names of the driver or the victim.