Video shows driver trying to run down 2 women in Tewksbury, police say
TEWKSBURY – Police say a man who broke into a Tewksbury home Monday night was captured on video driving through a yard as he attempted to run down two women.
Tommy Moges, 22, of Everett, is facing a laundry list of charges. They include breaking and entering, assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, negligent operation of a motor vehicle, and leaving the scene of a property damage accident.
Tewksbury police were initially called to a home on River Road. The homeowner said an unknown man broke in, and ran off when confronted.
While responding, police received another report of an erratic driver near where the break-in happened.
Police said that after breaking into the home, Moges allegedly tried to run over a woman on Mount Joy Drive. Video allegedly shows Moges in a Honda CRV driving through a yard in an attempt to hit her.
Tewksbury police said that woman was able to get out of the way.
Video then allegedly captures Moges continuing through the yard and hitting a second woman in the leg with his car. She was treated at the scene for her injuries.
Police said Moges hit a rock wall in the yard, then sped off.
Moges was quickly identified as the suspect in the incident. Everett police arrested him a short time later at his home.
The Brykman family heard the blaring car alarm and commotion from Moges allegedly trying to run over the first victim, then they ran outside. A 75-year-old grandfather, Louis Brykman jumped in to help the woman, and she got out of the way.
But then Louis says Moges started driving straight at him, through their yard, then hit his neighbor's leg.
"I wanted to kind of protect her somehow, I don't know how," said Louis Brykman. "He came at me, went into the lawn, came all the way here, I fell around this area and then went over there. You can see the tracks by the way right here and that's where he hurt my neighbor."
Brykman's wife Monique, watched in horror as the incident unfolded.
"I thought he would be dead," said Monique Brykman. "I don't think the guy was intending to kill anyone because he could have and he didn't, but he was still not in his right mind."
"I was furious that this person would do that and now I'm kind of fearful that anything like that can happen," said Monique Brykman.
A neighbor who only wished to be identified as Winston witnessed the shocking scene.
"He drove up and stopped in the driveway and started tooting the horn and wind up his window. And that's when I got scared," he said.
Moges was arraigned in Lowell District Court on a slew of charges, including assault and battery with a deadly weapon and negligent driving. He was ordered held without bail. Friends told police they thought Moges was under the influence of drugs, and when he was interviewed by police said he had no recollection of the incident.