
A witness’s keen instinct to record caught the man slamming a driver who rear ended him, leading to his arrest.
Thirty-one-year-old Haile Soares was heading to her home with her two young children in Attleboro, Massachusetts on January 3. She wound up caught in traffic like most drivers in the region. As she rolled to a stop, she rear-ended 26-year-old Gladior Kwesiah.
Kwesiah exited his car and pounded on the roof of Soares’s car. He was indistinctly shouting at her, and witnesses told police she was telling the irate man to leave her alone.
Footage released to police showed Kwesiah then forcing Soares’s car door open and yanking her from the driver’s seat. Without much effort, he lifted her up and slammed her onto the street head-first.
Kwesiah didn’t flee the scene after the police arrived
When police arrived, she was found bleeding from her head and quickly rushed to the hospital. Kwesiah remained at the scene after being rear-ended, where he was taken into custody. The hospital reported “extensive damage” to her head and eyesocket, in addition to a broken knee and foot.
Soares is on the way to making a full recovery and is grateful to be alive. Police charged Kwesiah with assault and battery with a dangerous weapon (the concrete being the deadly weapon) resulting in a serious injury, malicious destruction of property, and driving without a license.
“I called my friend and I started crying. I said, ‘I can’t feel my knees, I can’t feel my knees.’ I needed her to pick up my kids. All I thought was, ‘I’m not going to be able to walk again,’” Soares told WPI after the accident.
“I don’t know if he was having a bad day—I don’t know what that was,” she continued over a video call. “But if that’s the type of person he is, I don’t think he belongs in society with the rest of us.”