Colin Ratiu of Roslindale was ordered held in lieu of $7,500 bail at his arraignment today on charges he ran down a scooter driver on Tremont Street in Roxbury, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.
Prosecutors said Ratiu hit Andrew Prior, who was riding a scooter, on Nov. 14, then kept driving toward Brigham Circle as Prior lay dying. Assistant District Attorney David Bradley told Roxbury District Court Judge David Poole that Ratiu had told somebody who noticed the extensive front-end damage on his SUV that "he swerved to avoid a skunk and then hit something and then took off without stopping."
Ratiu was arrested on Friday after police found his SUV in his driveway with damage "consistent with striking a human," Bradley said.
Innocent, etc.
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