Thu Sep 28, 2023 – 4:22 pm EDT
FLORIDA (LifeSiteNews) — A former federal prosecutor who participated in cases against January 6 defendants is being charged with aggravated battery, aggravated assault, and armed burglary after allegedly stabbing someone in a fit of road rage following a highway collision.
The Tampa Bay Times reports that according to Florida Highway Patrol (FHP), a Tampa couple traveling south on Interstate 275 pulled over to assist a 35-year-old Tampa motorist who was unconscious in his seat while his vehicle was stopped in the travel lanes. At some point, the driver woke up, accelerated, struck the couple’s sedan, and in trying to get away, struck a car belonging to passing motorist Patrick Douglas Scruggs.
Scruggs pulled over, exited his vehicle to approach the offender’s car, then broke the window and began stabbing the driver with a pocket knife. The couple approached to try to assist the original driver, but Scruggs attacked them as well, and they fled, according to the report. The commotion caught the attention of a passing police officer, who detained Scruggs. The original driver was hospitalized with “serious but not life-threatening” injuries.
The bizarre altercation has drawn national
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