A 35-year-old woman was killed af­ter be­ing struck by a ve­hi­cle dri­ven by po­lice of­fi­cers along the Pri­or­i­ty Bus Route (PBR) near Sil­ver Mill, Barataria, on Tues­day night.

The de­ceased has been iden­ti­fied as Teneille Kim­ber­ly Vil­lafana, whose ad­dress is yet to be as­cer­tained.

Ac­cord­ing to a po­lice re­port, of­fi­cers at­tached to the San Juan Po­lice Sta­tion were trav­el­ling west along the PBR when the in­ci­dent oc­curred.

On reach­ing near Sil­ver Mill, in an area de­scribed as poor­ly lit, po­lice said Vil­lafana, who was dressed in dark cloth­ing, re­port­ed­ly stepped sud­den­ly in­to the road­way and was struck by the po­lice ve­hi­cle.

She sus­tained in­juries and died at the scene.

Dis­trict Med­ical Of­fi­cer Dr Kalloo vis­it­ed the scene, pro­nounced her dead and or­dered the re­moval of the body.

The in­ci­dent is be­ing in­ves­ti­gat­ed by W/Cpl Fred­er­ick.

Vil­lafana’s death brings the num­ber of road fa­tal­i­ties for 2026 to 76, com­pared with 104 for the cor­re­spond­ing pe­ri­od in 2025.