Road-rage suspect uses hatchet to repeatedly smash windows of crashed car — and the act is caught on cellphone video

Cellphone video caught the moment when a road-rage suspect repeatedly smashed the windows of a crashed car in Boston — and the unhinged fellow carried out the act with a hatchet, of all things.

Police said the aggravated assault took place just after 11:40 p.m. Friday in the 1000 block of Commonwealth Avenue in the city's Brighton neighborhood.

The victim added that he felt disoriented after the crash but recalled that the suspect approached him and began smashing his vehicle windows with a hammer or axe.

Police said the suspect reportedly chased the victim in his vehicle at a high rate of speed, causing the victim to crash. Police said the suspect then exited a gray pickup truck, assaulted the victim, and used a hatchet to break the windows and windshield of the victim's vehicle after the victim fled.

You can view video here of the hatchet attack.

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Police said the suspect fled on Babcock Street in the direction of Brookline.

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According to WBTS-TV, a preliminary investigation revealed that the victim was driving a Toyota Prius south on Commonwealth at a high rate of speed, veered to the right, jumped the median separating the road from the bicycle lanes, and crashed into a tree on the sidewalk.

Police told the station the Prius sustained extensive damage and that the airbags had deployed.

The Prius driver told police that the pickup truck driver chased and forced him off the road, WBTS reported.

The victim added that he felt disoriented after the crash but recalled that the suspect approached him and began smashing his vehicle windows with a hammer or axe, the station said, adding that the suspect also swung the hatchet at him and chased him down the street for a short distance.

Crazy video: Unhinged driver hits teen, crashes through Dollar Tree wall — with teen still on hood. The end is even wilder.

Cellphone video caught the moment when a motorist hit a teenager in the parking lot of a South Carolina Dollar Tree store on Mother's Day, then plowed through the store wall — with the teen still on the hood of the car.

Miraculously, the victim quickly emerged from the rubble and walked away, apparently as if the impact was nothing. You can view the cellphone video here.

'Youth these days ... don't value life.'

The Lee County Sheriff’s Office said a fight involving two adults and three juveniles began in the parking lot of the Dollar Tree on Sumter Highway in Bishopville, WIS-TV reported. Bishopville is a little less than an hour northeast of Columbia.

Authorities said a 17-year-old hit a 15-year-old with a vehicle before crashing into the store, the station noted, adding that the driver reportedly rolled the car away from the store and crashed into an occupied vehicle in the parking lot.

WIS said the 15-year-old hit by the car was not seriously hurt.

Deputies said 19-year-old Celvin Hickman and 24-year-old Shamirah Blyther were arrested and charged with disorderly conduct in connection with the brawl, the station reported, adding that Hickman also was charged with malicious injury to property.

Image source: Lee County (S.C.) Sheriff's Office

The three juveniles also were arrested, the sheriff’s office told WIS.

The 17-year-old accused of driving the car that crashed into the store was charged with attempted murder, disorderly conduct, and malicious injury to property, the station said, adding that authorities said the 17-year-old will be charged as an adult.

Another 15-year-old also was charged with disorderly conduct and released to guardians, WIS said.

Blaze News spoke with an employee of a business just down the street from where the calamity went down. The employee — who spoke to Blaze News on the condition of anonymity — said the harrowing incident has made people "look at Bishopville a little differently."

"I did have one guy who said he's afraid to come back down here," the employee told Blaze News, adding that a lot of people shop in the area, which police consistently patrol.

"It's crazy that it happened right there," the employee added to Blaze News.

Sheriff Daniel Simon in the aftermath told WIS that some "youth these days ... don't value life." Simon added to the station that the driver who hit the 15-year-old with the car "used the vehicle as a weapon. You might as well pull out a gun ... and pull the trigger."

WIS said the store is closed for now and that there's about $10,000 in damages.

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Man to stand trial on murder charges for high-speed crash that killed 4 Pepperdine University sorority sisters

A judge has ordered a California man to stand trial on murder and manslaughter charges in connection with a car crash that killed four Pepperdine sorority sisters two years ago.

The crash occurred on the Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu around 8:30 p.m. Oct. 17, 2023.

'This is a horrible, horrible case for everybody — the victims, families.'

Fraser Bohm — who reportedly was 20 years old at the time — allegedly was driving his BMW vehicle between 93 and 104 miles per hour in a 45mph zone, according to prosecutors. The car accident reportedly occurred on a section of the Pacific Coast Highway known as "Dead Man's Curve."

However, Bohm's lawyer, Michael Kraut, told Fox News that witnesses corroborated his client's assertion that he was driving "70 miles an hour, not 104" prior to the crash "and every fact that he gave was corroborated."

Kraut noted that one of the witnesses admitted to chasing Bohm in a road-rage incident, which he contends contributed to the deadly crash.

Kraut also stated, "There was somebody who had their lights shining directly into his eyes, and he had to move over, and that was shown on a video where somebody pulled into the center median."

Kraut added, "A woman who was in front of him saw those lights, and she moved over part of the lane and honked at him, and that startled him, and that moved him in. And that's when the crash happened."

Bohm said he was forced to swerve after a white car crossed into his lane and struck his driver's side mirror, which allegedly caused him to crash into parked vehicles.

According to KABC-TV, the female driver of a white Honda Civic asserted that she never made contact with the BMW before seeing it crash into the first parked vehicle.

Photos of the Honda Civic reportedly showed no apparent damage to the car.

Bohm reportedly crashed into three parked vehicles as well as four college students.

The Pepperdine University sorority sisters — Niamh Rolston, 20; Peyton Stewart, 21; Asha Weir, 21; and Deslyn Williams, 21 — were walking along the shoulder area after getting out of a vehicle when the BMW slammed into them, according to Deputy District Attorney Nathan Bartos.

All four members of the Alpha Phi sorority died.

They were seniors at Pepperdine's Seaver College of Liberal Arts and set to graduate with the university's class of 2024. The victims received their degrees posthumously.

The prosecutor proclaimed, "They were killed because of the driving of the defendant."

Last week, Superior Court Judge Diego H. Edber ordered Bohm to stand trial on murder and vehicular manslaughter charges.

Bohm was charged with four counts each of murder and vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence.

Bohm was ordered to return to the Van Nuys courthouse for his arraignment July 1.

Kraut said, "This is a horrible, horrible case for everybody — the victims, families. It's a horrific event. And my client's family and my client feel distraught over what happened. But the issue is holding my client responsible for the level of crime, if any, that he committed, not just going to the top for murder."

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Watch wild dashcam video of hit-and-run crash that led to bizarre chain of events culminating in arrest of rock star's wife

Newly released dashcam video shows the moment of a crazy hit-and-run accident involving multiple vehicles in Southern California last week that led to a bizarre chain of events culminating in the arrest of the wife of rock band Weezer's bassist.

As Blaze News previously reported, 51-year-old best-selling author Jillian Lauren Shriner was arrested last Tuesday and charged with attempted murder of a peace officer.

'It’s crazy how just one man can cause so much chaos.'

Shriner exited her home in the Eagle Rock neighborhood of Los Angeles at the same time police swarmed the area to search for three suspects involved in a hit-and-run incident. Police say Shriner was armed with a handgun.

“The officers ordered Shriner to drop the handgun multiple times; however, she refused," according to the police report obtained by KNBC-TV. "Shriner then pointed the handgun at the officers, and an officer-involved shooting occurred."

Citing Los Angeles Police Department spokesperson Jennifer Forkish, the Los Angeles Times reported that Shriner "pointed her gun at officers" and "opened fire."

Cops allegedly returned fire and shot Shriner in the shoulder, and then she fled into her home.

Shriner then purportedly exited her house and surrendered to the police. She was transported to a hospital with a non-life-threatening gunshot wound.

Police reportedly recovered a 9mm handgun from Shriner's home.

Shriner — the wife of Weezer bassist Scott Shriner — was taken into custody but released after posting a $1 million bond.

Police officers reportedly apprehended the alleged hit-and-run driver in a neighboring back yard. Video seemingly shows the suspect attempting to blend into the neighborhood by watering a garden and wearing only his boxers.

The man was arrested and charged with one count of misdemeanor hit-and-run. He allegedly got into a car crash with two other vehicles on a nearby freeway.

KABC-TV released wild dashcam video of the crash, as well as the suspect fleeing the crime scene with clothes and a guitar.

Video shows a gray sedan swerving across multiple lanes, slamming into a black car, and then a Tesla crashing into the other vehicles from the rear.

David Gonzalez was driving his brand-new Telsa when he was involved in the three-car collision.

“I thought I was in an episode of 'GTA,'" Gonzalez said of the crash, referring to the Grand Theft Auto video game. "Honestly, that stuff just doesn’t happen."

Gonzalez suffered an injured back and broken arm in the crash and will require surgery.

His Tesla, which he purchased just two weeks ago, was totaled.

Gonzalez said of the events following the car crash, "Ripple effect. At the moment, I had no clue what happened after, but it’s crazy how just one man can cause so much chaos."

Shriner is scheduled to return to court on April 30.

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'How much have you had to drink tonight, Wally?' Former police chief dragged from car, arrested for DUI in wild bodycam video

Newly released police bodycam video shows cops physically removing a former Illinois police chief from his vehicle after he was accused of drunk driving.

Walter Klimek, who was chief of the Bridgeview Police Department from 2013 until 2016, was involved in a car accident on Dec. 27, 2024.

'You guys are my f**king buddies.'

Officers with the nearby Justice Police Department responded to a high-speed car crash in which Klimek's speeding automobile allegedly struck a guard rail, spun out, and then slammed into another vehicle, WGN-TV reported.

The police bodycam video — featuring explicit language — shows Klimek in the driver's seat of his car with the airbags deployed and police officers all around his vehicle.

It appears that Klimek doesn't realize his vehicle was involved in a car crash and is insisting on leaving the crime scene. The officer is heard on police bodycam video informing the former police chief that his vehicle was involved in a car crash and suffered damage.

Klimek shouts at officers: "Let me go this way!" He then attempts to befriend the officers, "C'mon guys, you guys are f**king awesome! That's f**king cool!"

The Chicago-area villages of Justice and Bridgeview are next to each other, and a Justice officer — who apparently knows who the former Bridgeview police chief is — asks, "How much have you had to drink tonight, Wally?”

A passenger in the other car that Klimek reportedly struck was injured and was transported to a local hospital.

When an ambulance arrives at the scene, Klimek is heard asking officers, "What the f**k is that thing over there now?"

After the officer explained that it was an ambulance to tend to the injured motorist, Klimek is heard yelling: "F**k him! Get the f**k out of here!"

Klimek refuses to obey officers' commands to exit his vehicle and defiantly grasps the steering wheel when officers attempt to remove him from the car.

An officer tells Klimek, "All right, Wally, we’re going to have to get out, man."

"You're embarrassing yourself," a cop tells Klimek in the bodycam video released this week. "Let’s be a grown adult now."

The former police chief tells the officers, "You guys are my f**king buddies" and that he's "sorry."

Finally, two officers physically removed Klimek from his vehicle.

Klimek screams in the bodycam video, "Leave me alone!"

After being dragged out of the vehicle, Klimek is still uncooperative and is placed on a stretcher and strapped down.

Even after he was booked, Klimek reportedly was confused over the incident and didn't realize that he was involved in a car accident or that he had been arrested and charged with driving under the influence, the video shows.

“What do you mean a DUI?” Klimek told police, according to the New York Post. "I’m not drunk.”

Klimek refused to have his blood drawn at a local hospital to determine his blood-alcohol content, according to the arrest report.

The former police chief was charged with misdemeanor resisting arrest and DUI.

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Viral video: Juveniles race dirt bikes inside California shopping mall; cops investigating if one rider died shortly after

A viral video shows juveniles racing dirt bikes inside a California shopping mall Saturday night. Despite the video showing the suspects, no arrests have been made in the case. Police are investigating whether the incident is connected with a deadly crash nearby.

The Santa Clarita Valley Signal reported that juveniles were riding dirt bikes inside the Valencia Town Center mall — roughly 35 miles northwest of Los Angeles.

'People are there for the shopping experience. They’re not going to expect having a motorcycle ride right past them.'

The Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff's Station dispatched officers to the mall at 9:22 p.m. after a woman reported being struck by one of the dirt-bike riders. Sgt. Jerome Gage said, "She was hit by one of [the dirt bikes] when she was walking to her vehicle."

The alleged victim could not be located when deputies arrived at the shopping mall, which meant no charges were pressed and no arrests were made.

Sgt. Gage confirmed an Instagram video was circulating that shows the dirt-bike riders racing around the Valencia Town Center. The video had racked up tens of thousands of views in just days.

The viral video shows three male juveniles riding dirt bikes near the mall's food court.

Chris Hernandez, a restaurant manager at the mall, told KTLA, "It was loud. I saw the motorcycles come up through the mall."

"To me, it’s a big no-no because there’s little kids all over the place, and somebody’s going to end up getting hurt," Hernandez added.

Another employee at the mall said that it wasn't the first time dirt-bike riders have driven in the Valencia Town Center.

Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff's Station Sgt. Guillermo Martinez said the three suspects could face felony charges if they are caught.

"People are there for the shopping experience. They’re not going to expect having a motorcycle ride right past them," Martinez told KTLA. "That could be threat of serious danger, injury to them as well as to the riders of the motorcycles."

Police are investigating whether the suspects are connected to a fatal accident nearby.

Sheriff's deputies were dispatched to a vehicle collision just two miles away from the mall at 9:49 p.m. Saturday.

A 14-year-old boy riding a dirt bike collided head-on with a van in an intersection, according to police.

Deputy Robert Jensen — a spokesman for the Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s Station — told the Santa Clarita Valley Signal that the child was knocked off the dirt bike and then was struck by another vehicle and was trapped underneath it.

Deputies rescued the boy, and the Los Angeles County Fire Department provided medical treatment at the scene.

The minor was rushed to the Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital where he was listed in critical condition. However, the teen succumbed to his injuries at the hospital and was pronounced dead at 7:32 a.m. Sunday.

Jensen said the sheriff's office is investigating whether the boy who died was one of the riders in the viral video taken inside the mall. He added that the dirt bike involved in the fatal accident was not street-legal.

Sgt. Martinez said police would be increasing patrols in the area of the mall following the two incidents.

“We will be out there, and we will take a zero-tolerance approach,” Sgt. Martinez declared. “If we see it, we will either cite, confiscate, arrest, or impound depending on what the circumstances are, but we are ramping up enforcement.”

You can watch the viral video here.

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'Our house is quiet as a tomb': Drunk driver who killed 'pure' 13-year-old girl in cocaine-fueled crash learns fate

A grieving Massachusetts family is attempting to put the pieces together after a drunk driver killed a "sunny" 13-year-old girl in a cocaine-fueled crash.

Gregory Goodsell, 36, attended his company's Christmas party in December 2019. Goodsell was so intoxicated that his co-workers said they tried to prevent him from driving, but he ignored them, the Boston Herald previously reported.

'After Claire died, I didn't want to live.'

Goodsell allegedly attended an after-party at a home before getting behind the wheel of his company truck. Police said Goodsell struck a tree while driving the white Ford F-250 truck, which broke his passenger-side headlight around 6:40 a.m. Dec. 29.

Goodsell reportedly ran a red light and smashed into a Subaru while he was drunk and high on cocaine in Pembroke.

"Through evidence and witness interviews, investigators determined that Goodsell was intoxicated with a BAC of 0.266, under the influence of cocaine, and passed through a red light at 67 miles per hour before broadsiding the Subaru," the office of Plymouth County District Attorney Timothy Cruz stated.

At the time of the crash, police found a bottle of whiskey, a beer can, two nip bottles, marijuana, and a pipe in Goodsell's vehicle.

“I’m so [expletive] up. … I know I shouldn’t have been driving. … I can’t believe I did this. … I drank way too much, I’m so sorry,” Goodsell reportedly told police officers at the scene of the fatal crash.

Investigators determined that the Subaru broadsided by Goodsell contained 51-year-old driver Elizabeth Zisserson; her daughter, 13-year-old Claire Zisserson; and Claire’s 13-year-old friend Kendall Zemotel.

Claire was killed in the crash.

Her mother and friend suffered what the DA's office described as “catastrophic injuries.”

Claire's friend Kendall recalled standing “speechless” while looking at herself in the mirror for the first time at the hospital and seeing a large scar on her right cheek, under her eye, with a feeding tube coming out of her nose.

“Emotionally, I think about something that I know I shouldn’t, but I really can’t help myself — what I could have done to prevent this from happening to us,” Kendall wrote in an impact statement that was read by a prosecutor in the courtroom. “I could have just gone to the bathroom before we left the house that day or taken a little longer to get ready. … I could have saved Claire’s life if I was a minute late to everything I did that morning.”

Kendall added, “Claire was my best friend, the sister I never had, and my twin. Claire was always there for me before I even realized I needed someone. It is so extremely hard to process that Claire is gone. She deserved so, so, so much more out of life.”

Claire's mother said that her emotional scars will never heal.

"After Claire died, I didn't want to live," Zisserson said in court as she wiped away tears. "The ache of Claire's loss is overwhelming to me."

"My world changed the day that Claire was killed. I don't recognize the person I am today, versus the one I used to be," the heartbroken mother explained. "I was a super-busy mom juggling sports, Scouts, carpools, school projects, away games, and everything else in daily life."

“Life was happy and busy and crazy, and we talked about the future with hope and excitement, but now I function in survival mode ruled by loss, fear, and grief," Zisserson added. "The car crash destroyed my life and caused a ripple effect of damage that can never be undone.”

"Our table of four is now three. Our house is quiet as a tomb," she expressed. "The colors of our world are dull."

'Nobody should ever have to attempt to live through the pain that I’ve caused to all these people through my careless, destructive behavior.'

Claire's father, Ken Zisserson, added, "One day Claire was here, and the next, she was gone forever."

"When someone says, 'I can't even imagine,' I reply, 'You shouldn't have to. It's not natural,'" he noted.

Claire was described as “pure” and “sunny” by those who knew her best, according to the Patriot Ledger.

Late last month, a jury convicted Goodsell of second-degree murder, motor vehicle manslaughter while operating under the influence, leaving the scene of property damage, and two counts of operating under the influence causing serious bodily injury.

Before sentencing, the anguished mother asked the judge, "Please help me keep him from ever doing this again. He can watch the sunrise every day, but Claire won't ever see another sunrise. And we won't ever escape the devastation of losing Claire."

Judge Diane Freniere sentenced Goodsell to life in prison for the murder charge and eight years in prison for seriously injuring Kendall, which will run concurrently with a six-year sentence for injuring Elizabeth Zisserson. Goodsell also will serve 12 years for manslaughter concurrently with the murder sentence.

Goodsell will be eligible for parole after serving 20 years.

“Judicial discretion does not commit to the court to assign a value to a victim’s life because every human life is incalculable,” the judge told Goodsell. “I have considered the life of an innocent, remarkable bright light, Claire Zisserson, a 13-year-old girl beloved by her family, and a compassionate and kind friend who was taken because of your criminal conduct.”

Goodsell said during sentencing, “I shamefully take responsibility for what happened.”

“Nobody should ever have to attempt to live through the pain that I’ve caused to all these people through my careless, destructive behavior,” Goodsell read from a prepared statement. “If I could go back to that day and die, instead of Claire, I would in a heartbeat.”

“The constant nightmares, never being able to sleep because of what I did that morning, that is something that I will carry with me for the remainder of my life,” he continued. “Sorry is an understatement. I sincerely apologize from the bottom of my heart.”

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Road-rage suspect uses hatchet to repeatedly smash windows of crashed car — and the act is caught on cellphone video

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