ATTLEBORO – A Rhode Island man is under arrest after police said he body slammed a woman in an apparent case of road rage in Massachusetts Friday morning.
Started with minor car crash
It happened at the intersection of Route 1 and Route 1A shortly before 9 a.m. in Attleboro. Police said the man and woman were involved in a minor car crash when the woman hit the man’s car from behind.
A witness told police the man, identified as 26-year-old Gladior Kwesiah of Pawtucket, banged on the roof of Hailea Soares’ car and yanked her out of the car.
The witness said Kwesiah and Soares were arguing and when she said to leave her alone, Kwesiah allegedly picked her up and body slammed her to the ground. A witness filmed the encounter.
“I might die right now”
Soares, a mother to two young children, said she feared the worst.
“The only thing that I could think of was I knew I was in the air and by the time I was realizing I was in the air and I thought to myself, like, I might die right now, I had already hit the ground. And I didn’t realize that I had hit the ground,” Soares said. “It was like a weird sensation I felt on my face and that’s when I realized I was on the ground and I rolled over and there was blood dripping all over my hands.”