The chair of Tulane University’s Department of Pharmacology died Saturday evening, after driving through floodwaters and into a canal on the Westbank.
On a night when heavy rainfall flooded streets across the city, investigators say the Tulane University professor and his wife detoured onto Marr Avenue from Gen. DeGaulle.
But with so much water covering the roadway, Agrawal drove into the Donner Canal.
The couple managed to get out of their car, but police say Agrawal disappeared while trying to help his wife get to higher ground…