Overview
- The driver told police she felt a cord or wire tighten around her neck after stopping at Massachusetts Avenue and Columbus Avenue around 6:30 p.m.
- Officers found the highly distressed victim at the scene, and EMS evaluated her following the reported attack.
- Investigators tracked the vehicle using the victim’s phone and stopped it near Blue Hill Avenue and Stanwood Street in Dorchester.
- The suspect was identified by police as 24-year-old Christopher Dawkins of Dorchester, with another outlet listing the last name as Dawking.
- He faces charges including carjacking, strangulation or suffocation, assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, and receiving a stolen motor vehicle, with arraignment set in Boston Municipal Court.