How does the present tense work in a relative clause?


> そんなわけで、まだ日も暮れない夕方の通学路を、駅に向かってゆっくりと歩く俺と加藤。

I encountered this quote in a light novel and am stuck on how to interpret it.
It feels like 歩く should be "walking" in this context, but it is not 歩いている. The
sentence does not seem to express future or habitual action like the
dictionary form of a verb usually does either.




Saying 歩いている俺と加藤 is not wrong at all, but 歩く俺と加藤 looks more vivid and
interesting. This writing style is especially preferred in a script of a
drama, [sport news](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/23349/5010), etc.
Sticking to the present tense is one of the fundamental rules of writing a
screenplay, according to [this
page](http://kyakuhonkakikata.com/rulesofscreenplay).

This style is sometimes called [historical
present](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_present) as opposed the past
tense, but the general idea is that the employment of the pure dictionary-form
is an effective way to express something vividly with a "you-are-there"
feeling. Using ている is redundant and can make this sentence a bit dull.

