Man Injured In Woburn Hit & Run Begged Driver To Stop
WOBURN (CBS) - Police are searching for a hit-and-run driver who allegedly assaulted a police officer Wednesday morning and struck a pedestrian in Woburn.
It began when officers were called to a business in North Woburn for a reported larceny. Police say 29-year-old Tyson Delgado of Winthrop was being interviewed at the scene when he attacked an officer and took off in a white Chevrolet sedan. The officer wasn't seriously hurt.
A short time later, Delgado was spotted downtown near Main Street and police say he tried to drive away from them.
They say he took off down a narrow side street and hit 65-year-old Fred Pica in the crosswalk.
"By the time I saw the car, the car was dead center on me and I just got on the hood and I just held on for dear life," Pica said.
Pica just had breakfast with his wife when he was struck. Surveillance cameras captured the incident.
"I begged him, 'Please just stop and let me off your car. Please,'" Pica told WBZ-TV's Julie Loncich.
"I was thinking of punching out his window and trying to grab him but I said, 'If I let go of this hood, I'm a dead man.'"
Police say Pica clung to the hood of that car for several hundred yards as Delgado reached a high rate of speed.
"He was talking on the cell phone," Pica said. "Talking on the cell phone."
Pica says he finally fell off when the windshield wiper he was holding broke. He has a broken foot and has weeks of recovery ahead.
Troopers in cruisers and officers with K-9's spent much of the morning searching homes and yards looking for Delgado in the area of Garfield Avenue and Green Street.
He's now wanted for larceny, assaulting a police officer, and leaving the scene of an accident after causing serious personal injury.
Anyone with information is asked to call Woburn Police at 781-933-1212.
WBZ NewsRadio 1030's Bernice Corpuz reports
