A 26-year-old man is facing two assault to murder charges and several other felony and misdemeanor charges after he allegedly attempted to run over his former girlfriend and her current boyfriend at The Shops at Chestnut Hill on Boylston Street last weekend.

“The commonwealth requests the defendant be held pending trial,” the prosecutor said during a “dangerousness hearing,” used to assess whether a defendant poses a risk if released. “He is a dangerous individual with a violent history.”

​The judge ruled in favor of the commonwealth and revoked the defendant’s bail during Tuesday’s hearing at the Newton District Court. The defendant’s counsel had advocated for house arrest pending trial, along with additional conditions.

The defendant, Evan Wilson, is currently awaiting a separate jury trial at the Norfolk County Superior Court for a felony stalking charge and two misdemeanor restraining order violations against the same former girlfriend.

In the lead-up to the alleged incident, Wilson followed the couple from the woman’s residence in Framingham to The Shops before attempting to run over the couple, according to the prosecutor. 

“Oh, is this your new bitch?” Wilson reportedly said before he slapped the victim’s current boyfriend.

Allegedly, after pleading with the couple to “not call the cops,” the defendant got in his car and aimed his vehicle first toward the woman’s current boyfriend and later toward the woman herself. She and her boyfriend were able to get out of the path of the vehicle and were ultimately unharmed. 

Wilson fled the scene, and the Newton Police Department apprehended him after several days. He was arraigned on charges last week. 

The prosecutor noted Wilson’s intemperate behavior during the arraignment—when he screamed at the presiding judge, witnesses, and his former girlfriend—as further evidence for withholding bail, fearing witness intimidation.

Wilson has already faced two separate felony charges for assaulting his former girlfriend during the course of their relationship, but those cases were ultimately dismissed after she opted not to testify against him.

After their breakup around a year ago, the defendant continued to call the former girlfriend in violation of a standing restraining order. During an alleged incident one evening, he called her a total of 160 times. When one of the woman’s friends answered the phone in her place, Wilson proceeded to threaten her and her friends.

“He said he would find her and her people and kill all of them,” the woman’s friend reported to police. 

In a voicemail the prosecutor played for the court, a man who was allegedly Wilson said, “I will murder you all … stupid ass bitch … I will f—king kill you, bro.”

In two isolated incidents, the defendant reportedly confronted his former girlfriend at two separate workplaces, and in one instance, assaulted her in front of her coworkers.

As the prosecutor detailed a 2022 Boston Municipal Court case surrounding Wilson’s alleged violent assault against his former girlfriend, the defendant left the courtroom and yelled, “Love you, mommy,” directed toward his mother, who remained in the audience for the duration of Tuesday’s hearing. 

During the alleged incident in their Roxbury home, Wilson punched the former girlfriend and then began to strangle her to the point of temporary suffocation.

Medical records from the time show her with blood vessel damage in her eyes after the altercation.

The case was dismissed for failure to prosecute after the former girlfriend failed to testify against Wilson, the prosecutor said on Tuesday.

In another unprosecuted incident in Roxbury, Wilson was alleged to have again battered the woman, throwing her to the ground, choking her, and punching her in the ribs. 

The prosecutor said she had escaped from Wilson and fled to the local elementary school, where a witness met her and contacted authorities. 

The prosecutor cited a restraining order that the defendant’s father once filed against him. Wilson’s attorney said the two later reconciled, with Wilson caring for his father until he died in 2024, and that the resulting grief has clouded his recent judgment.

Wilson’s attorney suggested that the woman’s repeated failure to appear to testify or be present in the courtroom for restraining order hearings, combined with her pattern of allowing each order to lapse before seeking a new one, indicates that she may be an active participant in perpetuating the parties’ contentious relationship. 

Additionally, the defense said the commonwealth’s arguments routinely portrayed Wilson without presumption of innocence. The defense counsel affirmed that Wilson has never been previously incarcerated.

The counsel detailed the defendant’s professional career in response to the prosecutor’s claims that he was unemployed: he attended Northeastern for a year, went to Roxbury Community College, was studying to take the state insurance test so he could work at Aflac, and was hired to do onboarding for TSA until one of his criminal cases opened up again. 

“The defendant, Mr. Wilson, should remain cloaked in the presumption of innocence,” his counsel said, opposing the revocation of bail and noting the pending jury trial in Norfolk, where Wilson has not been convicted.