A 64-year-old man has been arrested in connection with a fatal hit-and-run collision that left a woman dead on Queen Mary Highway on St. Croix, the Virgin Islands Police Department reported.
Cedric Richardson was arrested on April 29 and charged with involuntary manslaughter and leaving the scene of an accident. His bail was set at $50,000, according to the police report.
The collision occurred on Saturday, April 19, at approximately 7:17 p.m. Officers from the Traffic Investigation Bureau responded to a 911 call reporting a pedestrian struck in the eastbound lane near Market Supermarket. The victim, identified by next of kin as 54-year-old Christina Finney, was walking eastbound when she was hit from behind. The driver fled the scene, and no reports of the incident were made to 911 or local police that night, the police report stated.
According to emergency room staff at the Governor Juan F. Luis Hospital, Finney sustained multiple blunt force injuries and experienced both respiratory and cardiac arrest. the report stated.
