Buffalo Grove police allege that a Niles man ran down a fellow motorist with a car following an altercation.
According to the police report, Matthew H. De Cicco, 33, of 8950 W. Heathwood Circle, Niles, and another man were both stopped at a red light at about 9:30 a.m. Jan. 14 at the intersection of Milwaukee and Dundee roads.
De Cicco was allegedly talking on his mobile phone and did not see the light turn green, so the driver behind him honked at him. The driver then swerved around De Cicco’s still-immobile car.
In separate statements, both men said they yelled at each other — both saying the other man started it.
Both also said that De Cicco challenged the other driver to a fight later that day at the large flagpole on the northwest corner. De Cicco said he was only joking, but the other man felt that his challenge was genuine.
“De Cicco reported that he was not trying to fight anyone and wanted to drive home safely because he had his 18-month-old child in the back seat,” the report reads.
De Cicco then followed the driver to his workplace, on the 1500 block of Barclay Boulevard. De Cicco told the police that he tailed the other man to write his license plate number down.
In the report, De Cicco said the other man parked, got out of his car and started walking aggressively toward toward his car, so he “drove quickly away since he was not sure if (the other man) had a weapon.”
But the other man told the officers that when he got out of his car and crossed the lot to return to his workplace, De Cicco rammed him, cutting his left arm. De Cicco then allegedly fled, and the other man got back in his car to pursue him.
That chase ended De Cicco’s parents’ house, on the 23000 block of Kingston Row in Lincolnshire, where both Lincolnshire and Buffalo Grove officers responded.
“(The man)’s left arm was cut and there was fresh blood,” the Buffalo Grove report reads.
Buffalo Grove officers arrested De Cicco, charging him with leaving the scene of an injury accident.