OCEAN CITY — A Virginia man who pleaded guilty to striking and killing another man who later became symbolic of Ocean City’s Walk-Smart pedestrian safety campaign is heading back to jail for five years after violating his probation.
Around 1:20 a.m. on May 28, 2012, Ocean City Police Department (OCPD) officers responded to the area of 54th Street and Coastal Highway for a reported hit-and-run collision involving a pedestrian. The investigation revealed the pedestrian, identified a Matthew Jude Cheswick, a Towson University student, was attempting to cross Coastal Highway from east to west when he was struck by an Isuzu Rodeo traveling the bus lane at a high rate of speed.
After striking Cheswick, the driver, later identified as Diogo Facchini, then 30, of Lorton, Va., continued to travel north on Coastal Highway before turning right onto 55th Street. Witnesses to the pedestrian collision followed Facchini until he was identified and apprehended by police. Cheswick ultimately died from injuries sustained in the collision and Facchini was charged with multiple counts including homicide by motor vehicle and leaving the scene of a fatal collision along with various drunk-driving counts.
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With a name like that
ReplyDelete...is he a BLM member and card carrying NAACP member? He will feel @ home in jail..
I wish no one ill will... But for some reason I absolutely take exception to this particular case.
ReplyDeleteThe man is a pig. He knowingly ran into someone - killed them - and attempted to flee.
In my opinion, his initial sentence was WAY to lenient.
Maybe the judge knew he's be back someday on violation of probation.
Have a good time in jail, you POS.
5 years? Should be 25 years.
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