In the hours that followed the road rage incident that occurred in Hopkinton on Thursday night, reports poured in that the victim had passed away due to her injuries. As of 7:30 AM Saturday morning, these have been confirmed as false by the victim’s mother, Tracy Decoff.
Destini Decoff, 26, was allegedly intentionally struck by 36-year-old Milford resident Ryan Sweatt in an apparent act of road rage.
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On Saturday morning, Tracy Decoff wrote the following to her friends and family.
“As much as i know it comes from a place of love, I can’t deal with the rip statuses everywhere. My baby is still on life support. Although I got the worst news that there are literally no signs of this ever changing, it doesn’t feel right.“
In the hours after the event, Decoff, described the extent of her daughter’s injuries.
“She was in surgery all night,” she wrote. “She is literally injured from head to toe. She had a brain bleed, so to relieve pressure they had to remove part of her skull. She was also bleeding internally. A plastic surgeon had to put her lip & chin back together. She has broken teeth, one of which landed in her lung. Broken shoulder, broken ribs, broken tibia that is putting pressure on the blood vessels around it. She has both collapsed lungs & her spleen had to be removed. She is on a breathing machine & hasn’t moved a limb since it happened.”
Mr. Sweatt was arrested by Hopkinton police and was arraigned in Framingham District Court on Friday afternoon. He is being held at the Middlesex House of Correction in Billerica pending the outcome of a Dangerousness Hearing, also known as a 58a hearing. Barring an exception from a judge, the holding period is a mandatory minimum of 120 days while he awaits prosecution.
Mr. Sweatt is currently represented by a court-appointed public defender.
God will take care of him? KARMA!
Our thoughts and prayers for the young lady, her family and friends.
I have lived on Hayden Rowe since 1970 and the traffic I awful especially during school starting and rush hour traffic at night
I can’t exit my driveway with the speed of cars the traffic going to drop off children at Marathon School which is I feel crazy as the school buses are also dropping kids off
The town must address this issue as it is going to get worse especially when they start building the new school