A Manchester, New Hampshire, man was charged in connection with a road rage incident that left one man hurt after he was thrown to the ground and struck several times, Suffolk District Attorney Kevin Hayden’s office said.
Aaron Olsen, 36, was charged with assault and battery causing serious bodily injury, assault and battery with a dangerous weapon (pavement) and disorderly conduct.
At his court appearance in Roxbury BMC on Thursday, Judge David Breen ordered Olsen be held on $200 bail, Hayden’s office said in a statement. Olsen is scheduled to appear in court again on June 26.
“This was a vicious, broad daylight attack in the middle of a busy intersection that shocked other motorists and left the victim with terrible injuries,” Hayden said. “I thank the witness who came forward with the video, and the investigators who used that and other evidence to assemble a solid case. This is yet another road rage incident resulting in someone injured and someone else facing serious criminal charges.”
At around 2:14 p.m. on Feb. 5, Boston police went to the intersection of Melnea Cass Boulevard and Hampden Street, Hayden’s office said. EMS was treating a man, 49, who had blood on the back of his head and a large contusion to his left eye and on the left side of his face.
The man told officers that he thought he was concussed, as he did not remember where he was coming from, the statement read. The man was then hospitalized, where it was found that he had sustained a concussion and six broken bones in his face, including two broken orbital bones and a fractured cheek.
Police received dashcam footage from a witness that showed the incident, Hayden’s office said. Olsen, in a white Chevrolet Terrain SUV with a New Hampshire license plate, and the victim, in a dark SUV, exited their vehicles. Olsen struck the other man, pulled his sweatshirt over his head and used it to control his movement.
Olsen used a leg sweep motion to bring the man to the pavement, struck him six times and struck his head against the pavement several times, the statement read.
The man was left on the ground, lying motionless, in the middle of Melnea Cass Boulevard, Hayden’s office said. Back in his Chevrolet, Olsen swerved his SUV around other cars and ran a red light before he merged into traffic. At around 3:12 p.m., he called Massachusetts State Police to report a road rage incident.
When investigators contacted Olsen, he told them that the man left his car and struck him first and struck back in self-defense, Hayden’s office said.
The dashcam video showed that the other man did not hit Olsen first, Hayden’s office said.
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