Monday, April 13, 2009

Brookline woman batters husband, smashes his Lexus

BROOKLINE—A Brookline woman was arrested last night with several charges after abusing her husband in a drunken rage and then ramming her car into their garage, police said.


Michelle Shay, 55, of Newton Street was found lying in the corner of her garage holding a sharp piece of plastic against her throat at 12:51 a.m., according to the report filed by Brookline Patrolman Sean Russell. Police had witnessed her drive a red 2006 Toyota SUV up the driveway and through the closed garage door, hitting a gray 2007 Lexus that was parked there.

Shay was charged with domestic assault and battery, intimidating a witness, assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, operating under the influence, operating to endanger, and willful and malicious destruction of property, Russell said.

Shay’s husband called police that evening to report his wife was out of control. Russell said the husband told him his wife was recently released from an alcohol prevention program and began drinking again.

Shay’s husband told police he noticed she was drunk around 10:30 p.m. last night and confronted her about her drinking problem. She immediately began screaming at him, saying he should not lecture her, and he was “ruining her life,” according to the report.

The husband said after Shay knocked down the hallway and kitchen tables, he was afraid for his safety and ran to the living room. Shay threw a vase, which just missed her husband’s head, and her cell phone, which hit her husband, and started punching his arms and chest, the report said.

Shay then took a kitchen knife from the counter and announced she would kill herself if her husband called the police or family members, according to Russell’s report. She ran with the knife through the house, ripping phone lines from the walls. She continued outside to her car, which was parked on the side of the road, while her husband plugged a phone back in and called 911, Russell wrote.

Shay shouted through the car window that if her husband made any calls, she would run into his car, which was in the garage. Her husband said he responded by closing the garage door from inside the house.

A few minutes later, he heard a crash. He went outside and saw that Shay had driven through the garage door. She reversed,
drove through the interior house wall, and tried to back out but couldn’t because of the rubble behind her.

The Toyota was severely damaged on the front and back end, and the Lexus was damaged on the driver’s side, Russell said in his report.

When police found Shay in the garage, she started screaming that “she wanted to die and it wasn’t her fault,” according to the report. Russell said as he removed the knife from her hand, she became “combative,” screaming she wanted to die several more times and kicking and punching him. Russell said he smelled alcohol strongly on her breath and removed her from the garage to arrest her.

Fallon Ambulance came for Shay, who was still kicking and screaming, and took her to a hospital, Russell said.

The Brookline Fire Department notified the town’s building department to inspect the house’s structural safety. Russell said Shay’s husband called the Worcester Court and got an emergency restraining order on Shay.


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