GoFundMe fundraiser<\/a> to help cover his unexpected medical expenses.<\/p>\n\u201cThis person tried to kill me,\u201d said Hamilton. \u201cI don\u2019t want anyone else to go through what I did.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hamilton was driving north on the 429 Expressway near Walt Disney World on Monday when he noticed a white Lexus that had collided with a guardrail.<\/p>\n
Video captured by cameras on Hamilton\u2019s Tesla appears to show a man staggering out of the driver\u2019s side door and collapsing in the grass in front of the Lexus.<\/p>\n
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As Hamilton pulled off the expressway to provide aid, the man\u2019s body was initially motionless. <\/p>\n
But moments later, as the Good Samaritan exited his Tesla, the man leaped up and began running.<\/p>\n
A camera mounted on the front of Hamilton\u2019s car shows the man jumping on the hood and roof of the Tesla, shattering the windshield.<\/p>\n
The man then tackled Hamilton to the ground and began beating him, video captured by another Tesla camera shows.<\/p>\n
For nearly 30 seconds, the man repeatedly punched Hamilton in the head, face, neck and back.<\/p>\n
Hamilton eventually broke free and began hitting the man in the throat to stop him, he told News 6.<\/p>\n
An Orange County deputy soon arrived and identified the attacker as 44-year-old Daniel Coman.<\/p>\n
Daniel Coman, 44 (Public Record)<\/p>\n
Coman told the deputy he only spoke Spanish despite previously speaking English to Hamilton, according to the arrest report.<\/p>\n
When the deputy first attempted to take Coman into custody, Coman approached in an \u201caggressive fighting manner\u201d and \u201cbegan swinging his left hand as if he was going to strike\u201d the law enforcement officer, an arrest affidavit states.<\/p>\n
Hamilton and another bystander grabbed Coman\u2019s arms and helped hold him down as the deputy placed him in handcuffs, records show.<\/p>\n
Coman was arrested on charges of battery on a law enforcement officer, resisting an officer with violence, assault on a law enforcement officer, battery and criminal mischief.<\/p>\n
Prior to attacking Hamilton, Coman was involved in a separate hit-and-run crash two mile south that was being investigated by the Florida Highway Patrol, deputies said.<\/p>\n
Coman is also a suspect in a \u201csimilar criminal mischief incident\u201d that occurred earlier that morning, his arrest affidavit states.<\/p>\n
Orange County deputies originally asked that Coman be held in jail without bond, records show, but a judge set bond at $5,000.<\/p>\n
Coman was in the hospital for an undisclosed reason at the time of his scheduled first court appearance on Tuesday, court records show. He remained in custody at the Orange County Jail on Thursday night.<\/p>\n
An ambulance transported Hamilton to the hospital where he said he was treated for a brain bleed, a concussion, multiple contusions, and four broken ribs.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy family and I live paycheck to paycheck,\u201d Hamilton wrote on his GoFundMe account<\/a>. \u201cNow, on top of trying to heal, I am facing auto and hospital deductibles, as well as tens of thousands of dollars in medical expenses.\u201d <\/p>\nBreaking News Alerts<\/p>\n
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