Elderly man killed in Walmart parking lot

On March 3, at 3:30 p.m. Rockford Police and Fire Departments were dispatched to the Walmart Shopping Center located 3849 Northridge Dr. for a pedestrian struck by a vehicle in the parking lot. Loves Park Po-lice arrived on scene first and located Walmart employees and other citizen’s doing CPR on the male vic-tim.
Preliminary investigation revealed an 86-year-old male was walking in one of the parking lot aisles toward the store when he was struck by a Chrysler 200 that was backing out of parking stall. The victim fell to the pavement striking his head causing traumatic injuries.
Rockford Fire paramedics transported the victim to a local hospital where he was pronounced deceased.
The Rockford Police Traffic Unit closed a small part of the parking lot to reconstruct the accident. Once the investigation is complete it will be reviewed by the Winnebago County State’s Attorney’s Office.
The name of the victim will be released by the Winnebago County Coroner’s Office at a later date or time.
No further information will be released at this time.