BATON ROUGE - A young boy was hit and killed by a semi-truck Monday night while riding his bike along Cottondale Drive. 

The Baton Rouge Police Department said that the 7-year-old was hit around 8 p.m. and officers are looking for the driver, who left the scene. 

Initial reports indicated that the dead boy was a teenager, but BRPD said Tuesday that the boy was born in 2018.

The boy's name has not been released.