Update: 12/30/13
Greenwich police have identified the victim in last week’s hit-and-run accident as 21-year-old Meghan Beebe, of Middlebury.
They also have a 26-year-old Ridgefield man, identified as Vyacheslav Cherepov, in custody.
Police said Cherepov dragged Beebe’s body with his red Pontiac G6 in the Williams Street parking lot before fleeing the scene of the crime.
Cherepov, who works at a restaurant nearby the crime scene, was arrested when he returned to the crime of the scene on Sunday in the same vehicle he struck and killed Beebe with.
Cherepov was arraigned at Stamford Superior Court earlier today.
Original story
A 21-year-old Connecticut woman who was struck in a Greenwich parking lot early Saturday morning has died from her injuries.
The victim, whose identity is being withheld until police are able to contact her family, was retrieving some personal items from her car in a William Street parking lot in Byram, when someone struck her with their vehicle.
Witnesses said the vehicle, described as a red low to the ground sedan with tinted windows, chrome wheels and possible damage to its front air dam, stopped briefly, but then fled the scene.
The victim, who is said to be from Middlebury, was rushed to Stamford Hospital where she was pronounced dead.
The hit-and-run driver is described as a light to medium complexion male with dark short hair.
Anyone with information on the accident is asked to contact Greenwich police at 203-622-8014.
