Larry Boyd had a bad day all around.

He started Thursday morning by getting into an argument with his wife, and ended the day in jail after being shot and Tasered by Philadelphia police.

In between, he drove his Ford SUV into the fence around his West Mount Airy home, ran down a police officer, and crashed into at least six cars and a UPS truck, authorities said.

Armando Rivero watched officers as they eventually surrounded Boyd and pulled him from his vehicle.

"He didn't want to get out. He fought them all the way," Rivero said. "They had to carry him away, literally."

Among the numerous charges that Boyd, 59, faces is aggravated assault. He was treated at Albert Einstein Medical Center for injuries including a bullet graze wound.

He was released from the hospital in the afternoon and processed at Northwest Detectives Thursday evening.

The officer whom Boyd struck with his vehicle was treated at Einstein for injuries to a leg or ankle, police spokesman Lt. Frank Vanore said. He said the officer was expected to recover.

The officer who fired at Boyd was assigned to desk duty pending the outcome of an investigation, as is standard practice.

Coincidentally, Boyd's wife, Sharon, had discussed dangerous traffic in the area of Lincoln Drive and Hortter Street with The Inquirer last year.

On Thursday, officers responded about 11:10 a.m. to a 911 call of a domestic dispute and vandalism at a home at Lincoln Drive and Hortter.

Vanore said he did not know the nature of the argument or how it escalated to the point where Boyd began bashing his vehicle into the fence and other property.

Officers surrounded Boyd's Ford after he had wedged it next to a tree, Rivero said, but Boyd revved the engine until he dislodged the vehicle.

Vanore said that was when Boyd struck one officer and the second fired several shots. Boyd also struck a police vehicle.

He then crashed his SUV into the back of another SUV waiting at an intersection on Lincoln Drive. That vehicle rear-ended Rivero's Toyota Camry.

"He just pushed it out of the way," Rivero said. "He just kept going."

Boyd continued on into the 500 block of Hortter, where his SUV bounced off several parked cars and hit a UPS truck, Vanore said.

Officers again surrounded Boyd and shot him with a Taser, he said.

No one else was injured in the sequence of events.

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