A pedestrian was killed while walking along Interstate 135 near Salina Thursday morning.

According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, at approximately 6:30am, dispatch was notified of a two vehicle non-injury crash with one driver walking south from scene. Shortly afterwards an additional crash involving a pedestrian was reported resulting in a death.

The agency says a Chevrolet Equinox was traveling south on I 135 when the subject ran out into the interstate and was struck.

The single fatality is not a local resident. He is identified as 25-year-old  David Pierre Jackson from St. Louis, Missouri.

The incident happened on I 135 at 6:45 Thursday morning three miles south of Salina.

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