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Ridgefield resident fled after dragging 21 yr. old in Greenwich

“Greenwich Police have arrested a suspect in the fatal hit-and-run crash in which a 21-year-old college student was killed after being dragged more than three blocks in the Byram section of Greenwich.

“The suspect is identified as Vyacheslav Cherepov, 26, whose last known address is Danbury Road in Ridgefield. He was arrested Dec. 30 after police say the suspect vehicle, a red 2006 Pontiac G6 was found in the William Street parking lot where the crash initially occurred about 2 a.m. Dec. 28 when the victim was retrieving items from a car parked in the lot. Cherepov is charged with evading responsibility: serious injury. He is being held on a court-set bond of $500,000.”…

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Nobody but a lowest of the low scumbag would hit a person, DRAG them with his car and then callously flee the scene. What a tragic ending to a young woman's life.

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