crash_reports: 2100000795

On 10/7/2021 at approx 1241 Hrs while assigned to 497 I responded to the area of 1631 Beacon St for a report of a hit and run that had just occurred, the complainant was stating to dispatch that a white Dodge Ram work van with ladders on the roof heading eastbound had struck his car and fled. At the time of the call I was on Beacon St near the Washington St intersection, 494, Officer Tocci radioed that he was at the intersection of Beacon and Walnut St. Officer Tocci and I travelled towards each other the length of Beacon St with no sign of the van. I spoke with the complainant, Daniel Bryan who stated he had grabbed lunch, at Stone L'oven pizza and was eating in his car while parallel parked on Beacon St. Two men, an older white male and a approximately 30-40 year old Hispanic male who had been sitting at the bar eating exited the restaurant , stared at him, got into the van parked in front of Daniel, the older white male getting into the driver seat , put the car in reverse, smashed into Daniels car damaging the front left bumper, than fled eastbound on Beacon St. Daniel states that he believed the males possibly felt he was parked too close to their van and rather than ask him to move , deliberately backed into his car intending to cause damage. Daniel has a dash camera on his car, had several photos of the van but none with a clear picture of the plate on the van. Daniel forwarded the photos to me which i submitted to IT to see if they could clean them up enough to get a plate number and attach to this report.