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Man charged with drunken manslaughter for chain-reaction Dorchester crash that killed teen

A Suffolk County grand jury has indicted Gregory McCoy, 26, on charges he killed Fritz Philogene in a crash at Norwell Street and Talbot Avenue in May, then ran away, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.

Philogene, 18, was waiting to cross the street when a drunk McCoy smashed his friend's Cadillac CTS into another car at a high rate of speed around 10:10 p.m. on May 19, sending that car into Philogene, the DA's office reports.

The grand jury charged McCoy with manslaughter while operating under the influence, leaving the scene of a collision causing death, leaving the scene of a collision causing injury and reckless operation of a motor vehicle. He is scheduled for arraignment in Suffolk Superior Court tomorrow.

According to the DA's office:

McCoy was allegedly driving a friend’s 2012 Cadillac CTS at a high rate of speed in a residential area as he approached the intersection of Norwell Street and Talbot Avenue on the night of May 19. The Cadillac slammed into the rear of a BMW stopped at a red light, sending both vehicles careening through the intersection just before 10:10 pm.

Philogene, who was at the corner with his bicycle and apparently waiting to cross the street, was struck and died at the scene.

The crash also injured the 33-year-old driver of the BMW and McCoy’s passenger, a 26-year-old Quincy man who owned the Cadillac.

McCoy extricated himself from the badly-damaged Cadillac and fled the scene on foot, leaving a blood trail from the vehicle’s final resting point to his neighborhood. Responding Boston Police investigators were assisted by multiple civilian witnesses who came forward to share their observations of the crash, its aftermath, and McCoy’s alleged flight, leading to his identification as the Cadillac’s operator – and, prosecutors say, evidence of his impairment at the time of the crash.

Innocent, etc.

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