NEW ORLEANS, LA : Hit-and-run crash that killed 2, injured 7 on Saturday, 2nd March 2019

The man arrested in connection with a hit-and-run crash that killed two people and injured seven in Bayou St. John Saturday night (March 3) is the son of a New Orleans Police Department officer, NOPD spokesman Andy Cunningham said in a news release.
Tashonty Toney was arrested on two counts of vehicular homicide, seven counts of vehicular negligent injury, hit-and-run and reckless operation of a motor vehicle, Cunningham said.
Investigators believe Toney was intoxicated when he crashed into a total of nine pedestrians over a span of three blocks on Esplanade Avenue, according to police. The night of the crash was Toney’s 32nd birthday, according to NOPD. As of early Sunday, police were waiting for the results of his blood-alcohol tests.
Cunningham said the fact Toney’s father is an NOPD officer will not affect the way the department handles the investigation.
“This discovery does not change and will not impact our department’s investigation which will be open and transparent,” Cunningham said.

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