Milford Man Charged in Assault Outside 7-Eleven

A Milford resident is charged with aggravated assault and battery, after police say he beat another man who tried to damage a vehicle that he was sitting in, in the parking lot of the 7-Eleven convenience store.

Tyler Asam, 20, of 5 Howard St., Milford, was arrested by Milford Police after a police sergeant investigating the assault said he heard him bragging to friends about the incident.

According to a statement filed in court by Sgt. Michael Jones, Asam was telling friends gathered around him that he kept hitting the man with his closed fist, while holding him in a headlock.

The 25-year-old victim was taken by ambulance to Milford Regional Medical Center. When Jones arrived, he reported, the man's eyes were swollen almost shut, he was bleeding profusely and it appeared his nose was broken.

A convenience store employee told Jones the victim had started the "whole situation." The man had appeared to be "high" on something, and approached a parked SUV, and started banging on the vehicle in what appeared to be an attempt to break the windows, the employee told Jones. When the man couldn't break the windows, he tried to pull off the side mirrors, police were told. 

At that point, a passenger in the vehicle, later identified as Asam, got out of the SUV and confronted the man, Jones wrote. "Asam is of much larger build" than the victim, who the witness said wasn't any competition.

Police arrived at the 7-Eleven about 2:13 a.m. Saturday. The fight initially was called in by Medway Police, who were in town assisting Milford Police because local officers were responding to so many incidents about the same time.

Asam was released Monday on personal recognizance at an arraignment hearing in Milford District Court, according to court records. He pleaded not guilty and is next scheduled to appear in court on Aug. 1. He is represented by Framingham attorney David Schulman.