A 28-year-old Maywood man is being held on $500,000 bond in the DuPage County Jail on charges of attempted murder and aggravated battery for allegedly driving a car that struck two people in a Woodridge bowling alley parking lot in the early morning hours of Aug. 3, police said.

Tiyon Tyson, 203 S. 10th St., Maywood, turned himself in to Woodridge police earlier today, four days after he allegedly drove a car that struck a 33-year old woman and her 11-year old son as they walked through the parking lot of Brunswick Zone, 1555 75th St., Woodridge, said Carrie Noe, spokeswoman for the Woodridge Police Department.

The 11-year -old boy was still in Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital in Downers Grove Thursday, Noe said, but his injuries were not life threatening. The boy’s mother was treated and released Sunday at Good Samaritan Hospital, Noe said. Both victims are residents of Westchester, Noe said.

Noe said witnesses told police Tyson and the victims had been inside the bowling alley bowling prior to the incident, which occurred shortly after 2 a.m., Sunday.

A heated argument ensued in the parking lot, and as the woman and boy walked away from the car Tyson was driving, he backed the car up “at a high rate of speed” and struck both the mother and her son, Noe said.

When Tyson put the car into forward gear, the car then ran over the boy before driving off onto 75th Street, one witness said.

“It was sickening,” said Nancy Pehoski, a Bolingbrook resident who was in the parking lot when the incident occurred.

“We heard a lot of swearing, an argument, between the woman and the driver of the car,” Pehoski said.

“The mother and boy walked away and never saw the car backing up quickly. When the car struck them they both went flying into the air and landed on the trunk before falling off onto the parking lot surface. Then he put the car in forward and ran the little boy over,” Pehoski said.

Pehoski said she ran to check on the boy as other witnesses tried to administer comfort to the victims.

“I held the little boy so he wouldn’t move too much, and he had vomited on himself. He kept crying for his mother, and said he hurt,” Pehoski said.

“I was stunned. I just couldn’t believe a person could do something like that to another human being,” Pehoski said.

After witnesses provided information on the license plate of the car, and after looking at video surveillance tapes, police were able to identify the owner of the car.

On Thursday morning Tyson, accompanied by an attorney, gave himself up to Woodridge police.
According to Noe the female victim and Tyson were “acquaintances who said they had a relationship.”

As of Thursday afternoon Tyson had not posted the $50,000 needed to be released from custody.