Los Angeles police have released the motorist who  struck and fatally injured a celebrity photographer who was crossing a busy  street after taking a picture of a white Ferrari owned by singer Justin Bieber,  a police officer said today.
       A friend of Bieber's was driving the car and was stopped for speeding  at 5:45 p.m. by a California Highway Patrol officer on the northbound San Diego  (405) Freeway at Getty Center Drive, investigators told reporters.
       The car exited to Sepulveda Boulevard and Getty Center Drive where the  photographer was killed, according to Los Angeles police officer James  Stoughton of the West Traffic Bureau.
      CHP officials said Bieber was not in the car when it was stopped,  according to the Los Angeles Times.
      The CHP would not fill in details about the nature of the traffic stop  or vehicle ownership until a Public Information Officer is available later  today, said Officer Francisco Villalobos.
      "He was warned by the CHP to get out of there," Los Angeles police  officer Emilson Saint Julien of the West Traffic Bureau said. "He was crossing  from the west side toward his vehicle on the east side. The car was going south  on Sepulveda toward him and he was thrown north." 
       The photographer had parked his car, crossed Sepulveda Boulevard, took  some pictures and crossing the street back to his vehicle when he was hit,  Stoughton said.
      The woman motorist made a U-turn and came around to use her vehicle to  prevent others from hitting the photographer while she called 911, Saint Julien  said. Paramedics rushed him to an area hospital where he was pronounced dead.
      The woman motorist was interviewed and sent home to care for her  children, although her car remained at the crash scene, according to Saint  Julien. It did not appear she was at fault because the photographer was in the  wrong place.
      "He was a pedestrian on a roadway outside a crosswalk," Saint Julien  said. "Crossing Sepulveda is almost like crossing a freeway."
      A friend at scene, Thibault Mauvilain, told ABC7 the photographer  freelanced for several outlets and was "just a kid from New Mexico."
      "He loved the people he was following," Mauvilain told ABC7. "It's  too risky and the money's just not there anymore. And even though we try to  stay within limits of whatever is legal, this is a dangerous job."
       While the investigation continues, Sepulveda Boulevard will be closed  until 6 a.m. from Getty Center Drive to Church Lane.