Shocking video captured the moment a maniac who crashed his car viciously attacked a good Samaritan who had stopped on the side of a Florida highway to help.
“This person tried to kill me,” said Hans Hamilton, who suffered a brain bleed and broken ribs during the beatdown. “I don’t want anyone else to go through what I did.”
Hamilton was driving north on the 429 Expressway near Walt Disney World Monday when he came across a white vehicle that had just smashed into a guard rail on the median. The driver stumbled out of the Lexus and collapsed on the grass, video obtained by News 6 shows.
The man appeared motionless as Hamilton pulled over and got out to help — but he then bolts upright, jumps on the hood of Hamilton’s Tesla and shatters the windshield, according to dramatic dash cam footage.
Video later shows the man, identified by police as Daniel Coman, 44, on top of Hamilton on the ground raining blows repeatedly on his head and body.
After more than 30 seconds of merciless beating, Hamilton managed to free himself and started hitting the man in the throat to stop him, he told News 6. Video shows him walking away as Coman lies on the ground.
A deputy from the Orange County Sheriff’s Office soon arrived at the scene and Coman immediately tried to fight him, according to an arrest report.
Coman approached in an “aggressive fighting manner” and “began swinging his left hand as if he was going to strike” the law enforcement officer, according to the affidavit.
Hamilton helped the officer detain Coman, who was later charged with battery on a law enforcement officer, resisting an officer with violence, assault on a law enforcement officer, battery and criminal mischief.
Police later learned that Coman was involved in a separate hit-and-run crash about two miles south. He is also the suspect in a “criminal mischief incident” that occurred earlier that morning, the affidavit states, without disclosing additional details.
Hamilton, meanwhile, was rushed to the hospital where he was treated for a brain bleed, a concussion, multiple contusions and four broken ribs, according to a GoFundMe page he launched to help cover medical expenses and car repairs.
He said he only ever wanted to help the stranger and “do the right thing.”
“The physical pain and trauma from that day have been overwhelming, and the emotional toll has been just as heavy,” he wrote.
Coman was scheduled to appear in court on Tuesday, but missed his date because he was hospitalized for an undisclosed reason. He remained locked up at the Orange County Jail Thursday night.
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