A pedestrian killed when he was struck by a car near a Lake Elsinore intersection was identified Friday as a 25-year-old Menifee man.

Edgar Orozco Martinez was fatally injured at 11 a.m. Thursday on Via De La Valle just north of Plaza Valenza, according to the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department.

Sgt. Brad Foster said Martinez was walking along Via De La Valle when the driver of a southbound vehicle apparently lost control, plowed into a parked car and then hit the victim.

The motorist, whose identity was not disclosed, immediately stopped.

Paramedics reached the location within minutes and attempted resuscitative measures on Martinez, but he was pronounced dead at the scene a short time later.

Foster said patrol deputies questioned the motorist, who wasn’t hurt, but did not arrest

See Full Page