{"id":222503,"date":"2026-04-07T21:01:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T21:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/222503\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T21:01:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T21:01:07","slug":"good-samaritan-ambushed-by-man-he-tried-to-help-on-central-florida-expressway-nbc-6-south-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/222503\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Samaritan ambushed by man he tried to help on Central Florida expressway \u2013 NBC 6 South Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A good Samaritan said he was assaulted by a man he tried to help after an apparent car crash in Central Florida, an attack that was caught on camera.<\/p>\n<p>The incident happened last month on State Road 429 in Winter Garden, NBC affiliate WESH <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wesh.com\/article\/good-samaritan-becomes-victim-ambush-attack-video-florida-highway\/70930393\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Hans Hamilton told WESH that he was driving when he saw a car crash on the side of the road.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I saw a car crash,\u201d he said. \u201cI saw a door open. So being a good person, any human being would see you would just pull over to check.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Video captured from Hamilton&#8217;s Tesla showed a man in a red t-shirt lying motionless on the ground next to his car.<\/p>\n<p>When Hamilton asked if he was OK, the man jumped up, hopped on the hood of car and stomped on the windshield.<\/p>\n<p>Hamilton told WESH the man then pulled him out of his car, and started kicking and punching him.<\/p>\n<p>He said the man threatened to take his life.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The whole time he&#8217;s hitting me, he&#8217;s telling me he&#8217;s going to kill me, and he didn&#8217;t just tell me,\u201d Hamilton said. \u201cHis eyes were void of any humanity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The man, later identified as 44-year-old Daniel Coman, was arrested for battery and criminal mischief.<\/p>\n<p>Hamilton said he suffered broken ribs, a brain bleed, multiple contusions and a concussion. He hopes Coman will be charged with attempted murder.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn my opinion, the only place you see monsters is on a movie screen or in a box,\u201d he said. \u201cWell, that&#8217;s where he belongs. He belongs in a box.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A good Samaritan said he was assaulted by a man he tried to help after an apparent car&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":222504,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1009,28,30,29],"class_list":["post-222503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-caught-on-camera","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}