WELLFLEET — Police are seeking information about the driver of a vehicle that struck and killed 24-year-old Timothy Duval Jr. of Tallahassee, Fla. on Ocean View Drive on Saturday, May 24 and then fled the scene.
Police and emergency responders were dispatched at 11:37 p.m. and found Duval in the road near the intersection of Long Pond Road, according to the police. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
Police believe that the vehicle was an SUV or pickup truck, based on Duval’s injuries. The Wellfleet police are leading the investigation as a hit-and-run, with assistance from the state medical examiner’s office, the Barnstable County sheriff, and the Cape Cod crash reconstruction team. Investigators urge people to come forward with “surveillance footage, dashcam videos, or eyewitness accounts from the night of the incident” that might help identify the driver.
Police Chief Kevin LaRocco said on Tuesday that no arrests had been made, but “we are following several leads.”
Information should go to Detective Michael Allen at 508-349-3702.
Duval, a U.S. Army veteran with a three-year-old son, was visiting friends over the weekend, staying with Tyler Luszcz and Gavin Holland at Luszcz’s grandparents’ house in Truro. Luszcz said he had been Duval’s roommate at an electric lineworker traineeship in Trenton, Ga. in 2023.
“He would come up to visit me every month for about a week at a time for the past two and a half years, since we left school together,” Luszcz said. On Saturday night, he said, the friends had gone to the Wellfleet Beachcomber for a concert, and Duval became separated from the group. The group searched for him and reported his disappearance to the police, he said.
Joey Smith of Chattanooga, Tenn., another friend, said he met Duval in 2024 after joining Local IBEW 175, an electrical workers’ union. Smith said he and Duval helped rebuild electrical lines destroyed by Hurricane Helene in South Carolina in 2024.
“I’m hoping they find whoever did that,” Luszcz said.
The police said they were “committed to seeking justice for Timothy and his family.”
