An off-duty MBTA bus driver has been charged with deliberately operating over a person and dragging him throughout 4 lanes to his dying, the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office stated.
Maximo Mazanett, 54, of Hyde Park, was arraigned on a homicide cost within the Roxbury Division of Boston Municipal Court Friday for allegedly killing 39-year-old Thomas Ruffen.
“Despite his knowledge that the victim was directly in front of his vehicle, prosecutors allege that Mazanett reversed his vehicle several feet, waited for the light to turn green, and then drove over the victim’s body,” a DA’s workplace assertion stated.
“The vehicle dragged the victim across four lanes. Mazanett again stopped his vehicle on the other side of the intersection, with the victim’s body beneath his vehicle.”
Prosecutors stated the sufferer was seen on digital camera having issue strolling and repeatedly falling whereas strolling from his Jackson Square residence towards Columbus Avenue at roughly 4:30 a.m. Thursday.
A bus driver who observed the sufferer mendacity in the suitable lane of the road, in entrance of an intersection, got here to a cease within the heart lane.
Mazanett, who was driving a 2011 Ford Explorer, stopped at a crimson mild instantly in entrance of Ruffen’s physique, and was advised by a number of witnesses the person was mendacity there, prosecutors stated.
Bail was set at $250,000 and Mazanett was ordered to give up his passport, not drive any motorized vehicle and don’t have any contact with any witness whereas the case is pending.
An MBTA spokesperson stated Mazanett was employed in 2017 and “is being suspended.”
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