MONTEVIDEO, Minn. – A 20-year-old Minneapolis man made his first appearance Tuesday in Chippewa County District Court on felony charges that he accelerated his car and struck his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend on their bicycles while in Montevideo.
Tremaine Michael Bucholz is charged with second-degree felony assault with a dangerous weapon; a felony charge of criminal damage to property; and a gross misdemeanor charge of failure to stop for collision, injury or death.
The Chippewa County criminal complaint alleges that Bucholz accelerated his car and struck his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend when he spotted them riding bicycles shortly after 6 p.m. Aug. 28 in Montevideo.
The woman suffered cuts and scrapes. She said that she had been knocked to the ground by the collision and that part of the car drove over her bicycle and part of her leg. Her boyfriend also suffered unspecified injuries.
Both bicycles were destroyed, according to the complaint.