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Driver Identified and Charged in Florida Roadside Beating of Good Samaritan

Police say the suspect was also tied to a nearby hit-and-run earlier that morning.

Overview

  • The attack, which unfolded Monday on the 429 Expressway near Walt Disney World, left Hans Hamilton with a brain bleed and four broken ribs.
  • Dash-cam and local news video show the driver first lying still, then leaping onto Hamilton’s Tesla, smashing the windshield, and tackling him with repeated blows.
  • An Orange County deputy arrived and, according to an arrest report, Daniel Coman approached in a fighting stance and swung at the officer, leading to charges that include battery on a law enforcement officer, resisting with violence, assault on a law enforcement officer, battery, and criminal mischief.
  • An affidavit says Coman was involved in a separate hit-and-run about two miles south and was a suspect in an earlier criminal mischief incident that morning.
  • Coman missed a Tuesday court appearance due to his own hospitalization and remained in the Orange County Jail Thursday night, while Hamilton is hospitalized and has launched a GoFundMe to cover medical and car repair costs.