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‘Going to bomb your police station and kill you all’: Man arrested on Main Street for assaulting first responders

by | Feb 20, 2026 | Featured: News, Featured: Police & Fire, News, Police & Fire

A Framingham man released on parole earlier in the day was arrested Thursday night on Main Street after injuring five Hopkinton first responders who attempted to get him medical attention and threatening to bomb the police station, according to a police report.

According to the report, HPD Sgt. Cody Normandin, the shift supervisor, was patrolling the downtown area in uniform. He observed a man at 8:13 p.m. sitting on the rock wall on the Main Street side of Hopkinton Gas who was “slumped forward” and “appeared to be unconscious.”

Normandin approached the man, later identified as Thomas Timpone of Framingham. Timpone told Normandin he was waiting for the bus and began to swear at him. Normandin observed the smell of alcohol on Timpone, according to the report, and noticed several nip bottles on the ground around him. He called for backup at that point and requested that the Hopkinton Fire Department perform a medical evaluation on Timpone.

Officers told Timpone that he was not in trouble and that they wanted to help him.

“He replied with, ‘I don’t need help leave me the [expletive] alone,’ still slurring the whole time,” Normandin stated in the report.

As officers tried to calm Timpone, he reached into his jacket pocket, saying “I’m gonna kill you.” Normandin, who stated that he was in fear for his safety, grabbed Timpone’s wrist. When Timpone refused to remove his hand from the pocket, Normandin pulled it out.

“We helped [Timpone] to his feet and I gave [Timpone] one last chance to comply stating, ‘Right now you’re not in trouble, but if you don’t stop we are going to have a problem,’ ” Normandin stated. After looking at Normandin’s name tag, Timpone said, “What’s your name? I am going to find you and kill you and your family.”

Timpone added that he was “going to bomb your police station and kill you all.”

Timpone “became violent,” the report stated, and he punched the officers. As one officer got one handcuff on him, Timpone kicked Normandin and another officer in the legs with “thick boots.” After officers brought him to the ground, “he continued to violently resist and attack us, kicking [an officer] in the chest.”

HFD EMTs were able to place Timpone on a stretcher as he kicked and spat at them, the report noted. He kicked one EMT in the ambulance as well as an HFD lieutenant. At that point, the EMTs decided to sedate Timpone and transport him to Milford Regional Medical Center while in police custody.

An officer then picked up a paper that had fallen from Timpone’s pocket during the altercation.

“It was release paperwork from Framingham District Court that indicated [Timpone] had been released on Probation earlier the same day,” the report stated. It showed multiple recent charges, including assault and battery on a police officer, larceny of a motor vehicle, operating under the influence “and other related offenses.”

Bail was set at $5,000, the report stated. Timpone was released from the hospital and returned to the police station. He was booked on multiple charges. They included: four counts of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon (shod foot), three counts of assault and battery on a police officer, two counts of assault and battery on ambulance personnel, one charge of threatening to commit murder, a bomb threat charge, and a disorderly conduct charge.

Stated Normandin: “[Timpone] created a substantial risk of public disturbance by engaging in violent and tumultuous behavior when he was screaming expletives, threats, and fighting with police and EMTs in a public place (Main Street).”

He added that “while vague,” the bomb threat met the standards under state law of a threat with a deadly weapon on a public building.

No court date was available as of Friday afternoon.

4 Comments

  1. G Towne

    And some want to get rid of our line of defense. Thankfully it was a police officer who unfortunately encountered this scum. And not a young person

  2. O Brennan

    Sounds like this guy didnt want to be bothered and was then forcefully “helped” by a police officer who by “helping” him got him into more trouble

  3. Steve Snow

    Glad Cody is ok fully support safe operation of HPD . Cody has already been told he’s welcome in my dooryard and any assistance needed is available. All HPD rank and file all HFD and DPW are welcome in my dooryard hot coffee cold drinks plates of food is always available. Community support of those who are there to help us is imperative.

  4. Brad

    Can’t just leave someone alone. This is why you never ever talk to the police.

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