Mass. man accused of capturing driver in street rage dispute
A Saugus, Massachusetts, man was ordered held on bail after he was accused of capturing and critically injuring one other driver throughout a street rage incident, police stated. The incident occurred simply after 8 p.m. Wednesday on Lincoln Avenue in Cliftondale Sq. after a visitors altercation in a rotary. Police stated the 2 drivers received in one another’s faces, bit one another’s fingers and threw punches earlier than a gun was fired. Stephen Cooper, 48, appeared in court docket Thursday on expenses of assault and battery with a harmful weapon after allegedly capturing Mohamed Elroch within the leg throughout a confrontation exterior Banana Splitz Ice Cream Parlor.Prosecutors stated Cooper engaged in a verbal and bodily altercation with Elroch, throughout which he made racial and xenophobic remarks. They stated Cooper was yelling on the sufferer and challenged him to cease, and that Cooper additionally yelled in regards to the sufferer being Arab.”The suspect rolled his window down as properly, and checked out him for about three seconds, and the suspect yelled at him, ‘Hey Osama! You (expletive) terrorist. I dare you to cease.’ These statements infuriated him, so he stopped his automobile,” the prosecutor stated. Cooper’s protection legal professional claims that Elroch, from Melrose, approached Cooper aggressively, forcing him to behave in self-defense. “He really attacked my consumer, and I am informed he was punched 10 occasions within the face and in the end what ensued was self-defense, frankly,” Cooper’s legal professional stated. The legal professional additionally denies Copper made racial remarks. “My consumer is adamant he made no racially charged statements in any respect,” the legal professional stated. “Saugus PD did not cost him with that.”Police say the incident culminated in Cooper capturing Elroch within the leg.”He kinda pulled again, and the opposite man pulled a gun out of his pocket and shot him within the leg,” one witness stated. Cooper was held on $50,000 money bail at his arraignment and ordered to steer clear of the sufferer. He additionally can’t possess any firearms or harmful weapons, and he should give up his license to hold. Cooper will return to court docket on Oct. 20.
A Saugus, Massachusetts, man was ordered held on bail after he was accused of capturing and critically injuring one other driver throughout a street rage incident, police stated.
The incident occurred simply after 8 p.m. Wednesday on Lincoln Avenue in Cliftondale Sq. after a visitors altercation in a rotary. Police stated the 2 drivers received in one another’s faces, bit one another’s fingers and threw punches earlier than a gun was fired.
Stephen Cooper, 48, appeared in court docket Thursday on expenses of assault and battery with a harmful weapon after allegedly capturing Mohamed Elroch within the leg throughout a confrontation exterior Banana Splitz Ice Cream Parlor.
Prosecutors stated Cooper engaged in a verbal and bodily altercation with Elroch, throughout which he made racial and xenophobic remarks. They stated Cooper was yelling on the sufferer and challenged him to cease, and that Cooper additionally yelled in regards to the sufferer being Arab.
“The suspect rolled his window down as properly, and checked out him for about three seconds, and the suspect yelled at him, ‘Hey Osama! You (expletive) terrorist. I dare you to cease.’ These statements infuriated him, so he stopped his automobile,” the prosecutor stated.
Cooper’s protection legal professional claims that Elroch, from Melrose, approached Cooper aggressively, forcing him to behave in self-defense.
“He really attacked my consumer, and I am informed he was punched 10 occasions within the face and in the end what ensued was self-defense, frankly,” Cooper’s legal professional stated.
The legal professional additionally denies Copper made racial remarks.
“My consumer is adamant he made no racially charged statements in any respect,” the legal professional stated. “Saugus PD did not cost him with that.”
Police say the incident culminated in Cooper capturing Elroch within the leg.
“He kinda pulled again, and the opposite man pulled a gun out of his pocket and shot him within the leg,” one witness stated.
Cooper was held on $50,000 money bail at his arraignment and ordered to steer clear of the sufferer. He additionally can’t possess any firearms or harmful weapons, and he should give up his license to hold.
Cooper will return to court docket on Oct. 20.
