Authorities are investigating the mysterious death of a young woman from Wisconsin who was found dead on the I-10 Twin Spans in an apparent hit-and-run. St. Tammany Parish Coroner Christopher Tape says Edashia Caraway was in New Orleans for the NBA Youngboy concert.
“Maybe she was riding with somebody and, for whatever reason, got out of the vehicle. You can speculate a lot about a lot of things. But regardless, she’s on the bridge, and she apparently gets struck by a vehicle and then gets run over by another vehicle; the second vehicle stops,” Tape said.
Caraway was to have flown home Tuesday morning, instead that morning State Police responded to a report of a body on Twin Spans at approximately mile marker 26 eastbound. Tape says Caraway traveled to Louisiana alone.
“It was a basically a birthday present. Unfortunately, today would have been her 27th birthday,” Tape said.
Tape says Caraway perished of multiple blunt force injuries due to a vehicle-versus-pedestrian impact. The manner of death is homicide from hit and run. The coroner says State Police and other law enforcement agencies are trying to determine how she ended up on the Twin Span.
“She came alone. I don’t know if she met anybody. Obviously, it’s a big city. You can meet a lot of people,” Tape said.
