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CALIFORNIA BRIEFING / LOS ANGELES

A 49-year-old man who had recently checked out of a halfway house was killed Sunday in a hit-and-run accident in Watts, Los Angeles police said.

The man, who was not identified, was struck by a motorist in a white Kia heading north on Broadway near 93rd Street about 3:25 a.m., police said. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

Witnesses said that before the man was struck, he appeared to be intoxicated and was lying in the roadway.

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Authorities are searching for the driver, who fled the scene.

-- Corina Knoll

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