DRACUT — Just over a year after a bullet was fired during an alleged road‑rage incident on New Boston Road, the Lowell man accused of pulling the trigger has been arrested.
Tylor Poth, 23, is behind bars awaiting a 58A dangerousness hearing on charges of discharging a firearm and assault with a dangerous weapon for allegedly firing a handgun from the driver’s seat of a car at another vehicle as it attempted to pass him.
Nobody was injured during the shooting, which took place just after 12:50 p.m. on July 13, 2025.
According to a Dracut Police incident report, a 22‑year‑old Dracut man driving a 2013 Honda Pilot and his 22‑year‑old passenger from Pelham, New Hampshire, were traveling on New Boston Road when they reported becoming stuck behind a white sedan with dark‑tinted windows and a “baby on board” sticker on the rear window.
The Pilot’s driver told police the sedan was moving very slow, prompting him to cross the double yellow line in an attempt to pass. He said the sedan’s driver refused to let him by, forcing him back into the correct lane behind the slow-moving vehicle.
According to the 22-year-old’s account, the sedan then slowed again and began brake-checking, nearly coming to a stop. When the Pilot attempted to pass a second time and drew parallel with the sedan, the sedan’s driver allegedly extended a gun out the driver’s side window and fired a single round. The shot shattered the Pilot’s rear passenger-side window.
The 22-year-old driver pulled into a nearby parking lot, while the driver of the sedan fled.
The police report states that responding officers found a bullet hole in the rear passenger door of the Pilot and broken glass from the rear window inside the vehicle. Police said they also located shattered glass in the roadway near 78 New Boston Road.
The two occupants of the Pilot were only able to provide a physical description of the gunman and the sedan but were unable to provide a license plate number.
Witnesses in the area reported hearing what sounded like a vehicle’s exhaust backfire or “a big bang,” and one resident saw a white sedan but could not provide identifying details. Several homes in the area had cameras, but none were functioning.
Police said they later obtained footage from a gas station camera pointed toward Lakeview Avenue and New Boston Road.
At about 12:53 p.m., the video showed a white sedan with tinted windows turning onto New Boston Road, followed closely by the victims’ Honda Pilot. Police noted the sedan appeared to be an Acura TLX or ILX with a dark plate cover preventing police from seeing a license plate number.
A Flock camera hit for the vehicle at Lakeview and Patricia avenues a couple minutes earlier captured a white 2019 Acura ILX with dark tint, a small black spoiler, black trim, and a “baby on board” sticker — matching the vehicle seen in the gas station footage. The Flock camera also captured the license plate number. The car was registered to a Lowell woman.
Police later located the Acura on Prince Avenue in Lowell. Officers noted streaks of glue on the windows, suggesting window tint had recently been removed. The vehicle did not have a “baby on board” sticker, though police said it could “easily be added or removed.”
During an interview on July 16, 2025, the registered owner told police that her boyfriend, Poth, and Poth’s mother regularly drive the vehicle because they do not have one of their own, according to the incident report. She told officers she was unaware who was driving the vehicle on the day of the shooting.
The Acura was seized, and a search warrant was granted. State Police forensic investigators found a spent 9 mm Ruger Blazer shell casing under the passenger seat, a piece of used window tint inside the driver’s‑side door handle, and a circular imprint on the rear window where the “baby on board” sticker had appeared in the Flock image.
In October 2025, the State Police reported primer gunshot residue inside the vehicle, indicating it had been in the vicinity of a firearm when it was discharged.
Police noted that they showed a photo array that included Poth to the Pilot’s passenger, but he was unable to make a positive identification.
Investigators also obtained a search warrant for data from Poth’s cellphone in an effort to determine the phone’s location at the time of the shooting, a process that required additional forensic analysis, according to the report.
Poth was arrested and arraigned on Wednesday in Lowell District Court on the charges of discharging a firearm within 500 feet of a building and assault with a dangerous weapon.
At the request of the Middlesex District Attorney’s Office, he was ordered held without bail pending a 58A dangerousness hearing on Monday. The hearing will determine if Poth poses a threat to the community and should remain in custody as the case proceeds in court.
A court filing from prosecutors noted the case involves “substantial discovery” and referenced Poth’s criminal record, though details were not immediately available.
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