MassLive reported that the officer, James Kelly, was knocked unconscious by the pickup truck driven by a 20-year-old Chicopee man early Saturday morning.
According to the police, officers Kelly and Darrin Fitzpatrick were patrolling the Paramount Street area in Springfield around 3:30 a.m. due to numerous reports of break-ins when they spotted a brown pickup truck parked in front of a closed oil business.
Police said Kelly and Fitzpatrick approached the truck and told the two occupants to get out, but instead the driver raced the engine and drove at the officers, striking Kelly, who landed on the truck's hood and shattered the windshield, MassLive reports. The driver then drove toward Page Boulevard.
Police later stopped the truck at Main and Myrtle Streets in the Indian Orchard section, where the driver, Joshua Cayo resisted arrest, and was charged with assault and battery with a dangerous weapon (motor vehicle), attempted murder, leaving the scene of a personal injury accident, resisting arrest and trespassing with a motor vehicle.
Cayo is expected to be arraigned on Monday in Springfield District Court.
This incident occurred only one day after veteran state Trooper Doug Weddleton was killed in Mansfield after leaving his cruiser to talk to a motorist he had pulled over.
According to the police, Kelly was treated for head injuries at the Baystate Medical Center and was later released.
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