After purposefully running over a man in Boston with his personal vehicle and dragging the body, an MBTA bus driver was charged with murder on Friday. Thomas Ruffen, 39, was killed, and Maximo Mazanett, 54, has been detained and accused of the crime. The event occurred at 4:46 a.m. on Thursday on Columbus Avenue off Center Street close to the Jackson Square MBTA stop, close to the Roxbury/Jamaica Plain line.
Ruffen was reportedly lying on the ground outside the MBTA stop when Mazanett arrived in a tan Ford Explorer SUV, according to witnesses, including the driver of an Orange Line shuttle bus. The shuttle bus driver said that she yelled at Mazanett to halt because someone was on the street after getting off her bus. “(Expletive) you, I work for the city,” the driver yelled.
The according to a Boston police report, the driver “then ran over the person and pulled the person beneath the SUV across Columbus Avenue.” A second eyewitness claimed to have heard Mazanett utter an insult just before running the man down. The SUV was allegedly lifted from the victim by witnesses. At the scene, Ruffen was pronounced deceased. According to Boston police, Mazanett told homicide investigators that because his windows were rolled up, he couldn’t yell at anyone while driving to work as an MBTA bus driver.
He added that he didn’t see anyone on the road. Police said that surveillance video from the scene shows a man named Ruffen staggering through the neighborhood before falling to the ground. The video displays the mazanett is waved at by the shuttle bus driver, who then appears to swear at him before running over the man. Mazanett is being jailed on a $250,000 bail and must give up his passport. After purposefully running over a man in Boston with his personal vehicle and dragging the body, an MBTA bus driver was charged with murder on Friday.
Thomas Ruffen, 39, was killed, and Maximo Mazanett, 54, has been detained and accused of the crime.
Around 4:46 a.m. on Thursday, the event took place close to the Roxbury/Jamaica Plain boundary on Columbus Avenue close to Center Street close to the Jackson Square MBTA station.
Ruffen was reportedly lying on the ground outside the MBTA stop when Mazanett arrived in a tan Ford Explorer, according to witnesses, including the driver of an Orange Line shuttle bus.
