Suspect in fatal hit-and-run back at county jail

By Pashtana Usufzy

Thursday, Dec. 18, 2014 | 3:27 p.m.

A woman accused of leaving the scene of an accident that killed a grandfather pushing a baby stroller is back at the Clark County jail after being held by immigration officials, police said.

Galina Kilova, 29, was booked today at the Clark County Detention Center on two no-bail warrants in connection with the crash on South Rainbow Boulevard near West Warm Springs Road, Metro Police said in a statement.

Kilova is accused of driving a Honda Civic that hit and killed Michael Grubbs, 63, as he pushed his 1-year-old granddaughter in a stroller Nov. 24.

The car was attempting to pass other vehicles along the shoulder of the road when it hit Grubbs and the child from behind, police said.

The baby suffered minor injuries, police said.

Kilova’s attorney, Herb Sachs, contacted Metro, saying his then-unnamed client would meet with detectives in the week after the accident, Metro said.

Kilova and Sachs met with police more than a week after the accident, and Kilova was arrested after the meeting, police said. She was arrested on a count of felony hit-and-run involving a death, police said.

She was let go on $20,000 bail, despite a request that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials be notified prior to her release, ICE said in a statement.

Records show Kilova entered the country in 2006 on a nonimmigrant visa, which permitted her to stay in the country for six months, the statement said. She was born in Bulgaria, according to ICE records.

Immigration officials took custody of Kilova on Dec. 9, booking her into the Henderson Detention Center, “given the public safety implications” of her release, ICE said. Details of her subsequent release from immigration custody were not immediately available.

She is set to appear Monday in Las Vegas Township Justice Court.