Posted on 11/05/2010 6:25:12 AM PDT by LurkedLongEnough
A speeding maroon Mitsubishi SUV raced the wrong way up Commonwealth Avenue from Kenmore Square early Thursday afternoon, sideswiping at least eight cars and colliding with two more before the driver stopped and fled on foot. Marouk Onifade, one of those whose car was sideswiped, chased down the suspect and held him until police arrived to take him into custody.
“I didn’t hold him long,” says Onifade, a native of Benin, West Africa, who works in real estate in Boston. “The police were already very nearby.” Onifade downplayed assertions that his actions were heroic.
Boston Police were called at 12:41 p.m. and closed the inbound lane of Commonweath Avenue from St. Mary’s Street to Kenmore Square for more than an hour while tow trucks removed the damaged cars.
Arrested at the scene was 29-year-old Ahmed Yerow of Chelsea. According to Boston Police spokesman Dave Estrada, Yerow was charged with assault and battery by means of a dangerous weapon, leaving the scene of an accident with personal injury, leaving the scene of an accident with property damage, operating to endanger, and driving the wrong way on a one-way street.
Yerow, who was hospitalized with a broken jaw Thursday night, is expected to be arraigned Friday in Roxbury District Court.
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The article doesn't say whether he got the broken jaw while he was in the car or after he got out.
One of the Boston Brahmin Yerow's in trouble?
Was he yelling “Allahu Akbar” as he was speeding down Commonwealth Avenue?
2 Months ago Tom Brady was by an illegal who ran a red light on Comm. Ave.
Amish AGAIN?
I'm getting tired of Amish terrorism!
“Hit his head” getting into the squad car, maybe.
I wonder if meth was a contributing factor...
AHMED??? Just ANOTHER MUSLIM TERRORIST!!!!
What’s with all of the weird names in Boston? Is the whole city taken over by immigrants?
The Boston metropolitian area has about 5 million residents, the City of Boston has about 600,000. The area around Commonwealth Avenue, “Comm Ave” in the local parlance, is thick with students, a lot of whom are “international” students. (Notice that this report is in the Boston University paper.) They have student visas, but a lot of them want to hang around after they finish school.
“Kamikaze SUVs...tonight at 11.”
... or after they enter the country & disappear ...
Good point about Boston University's student diversity. It's a huge school, 20000 undergrads and a ton of grad students.
Broken jaw?
Somehow I think Onifade wasn’t too happy that his car got sideswiped. West African justice.
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