BOSTON (WHDH) – A man is facing criminal charges after police say he crashed a vehicle into a business in Roxbury early Saturday morning during a domestic violence incident.
Officers responding to a reported motor vehicle accident on Warren Street around 5:15 a.m. found a vehicle that had slammed through the front of a Dollar Tree, according to Boston police.
Following an investigation, police determined the driver, latrr identified as Wilther Rodrigues, 38, had been involved in a domestic violence incident with his passenger and crashed while assaulting them, police said.
The passenger was taken to a nearby hospital to be treated for injuries sustained before and during the crash.
Rodrigues was arrested on charges of armed assault to murder, reckless operation of a motor vehicle, assault and battery, malicious destruction of property, and resisting arrest.
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