Truck driver Elten Gevergizyan faces court charged over alleged road rage incidents
A TRUCK driver accused of a terrifying armed road rage on the Tullamarine Fwy has been charged over another ramming just hours later and is being probed over other alleged violent rampages.
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A TRUCK driver accused of a terrifying armed road rage on the Tullamarine Fwy has been charged over another ramming just hours later and is being probed over other alleged violent rampages.
The Herald Sun can reveal another incident police are investigating if Elten Gevergizyan was involved in as he faced the Broadmeadows Magistrates Court today.
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Mr Gevergizyan, 27, who describes himself online as “very easy going”, has been charged with 15 offences relating to two separate high-speed car rammings just hours apart.
He sat quietly in the dock as his lawyer Mihal Greener explained he would not be applying for bail but was withdrawing from drugs.
“He’d like some assistance with ice withdrawal,” Ms Greener said.
“He’s feeling very nauseous.”
She said she would prepare a bail application for Mr Gevergizyan for next week.
Police swooped on the Craigieburn man on last night following Saturday’s frenzied rampage in which he allegedly tailgated schoolteachers Leigh Mahady, 62, and Julie Dougherty, 60, as they drove along the Tullamarine Fwy at Strathmore to Melbourne Airport.
When they stopped to confront him, he allegedly produced a hammer, threatening to kill them, before launching a vicious assault on them.
Charge sheets released from the court allege that in a shockingly similar incident, he rammed another car off the road at 100km/h, placing them in danger of death, in Epping in the early hours of Sunday.
He then allegedly got out of his vehicle and unlawfully assaulted the occupants with a baseball bat.
Sitting in court to observe the proceedings was John DeMarco who reported another alleged road rage incident involving his wife to police on Saturday.
His wife Suzanne was driving home to Oaklands Junction from Melbourne Airport just before 3pm on Friday when she says a driver was tailgating her in the reduced 60km/h zone in the Tullamarine Fwy.
“It’s strikingly similar to the other incidents,” Mr DeMarco said outside court.
“He was right up behind her tooting the horn and waving his fist.
“He forced her off the road. Then he got out of the car and thumped my wife’s vehicle with his fist. My wife was so traumatised.”
The Herald Sun does not suggest Mr Gevergizyan was the driver, only that police are investigating him as a suspect.
He will return to court on June 8.
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