(COLORADO SPRINGS) — Court documents state that a suspect told officers that he only ran to Walmart and came home, when he was allegedly caught on video running over another driver during a road rage incident.
According to an arrest affidavit for 39-year-old Daniel Nations, the incident occurred shortly before 11:30 a.m. on Thursday, July 24 just south of the intersection of North Union and Palmer Park Boulevards.
Officers responded to a reported road rage that resulted in a pedestrian being hit. Witnesses told officers that the driver of a red Subaru got out of his car and was run over by the driver of a blue Chevrolet Equinox before the Equinox drove away eastbound on Palmer Park. One witness got a possible license plate from the Chevy and provided it to officers.
The victim was taken to the hospital with life-threatening injuries and had to be intubated, the affidavit states.
Officers with the Real Time Crime Center entered the license plate number provided by witnesses and found a Chevy Equinox captured on multiple license plate readers near the scene leading up to and after the incident. Officers also got a match on an Equinox registered in a woman’s name and an address near Patty Jewett Golf Course.
Officers went to the apartment complex where the car was registered but did not find the Equinox. Around 12:45 p.m., about an hour and a half after the incident, officers saw the Equinox pulling up to the building. Officers made contact with the sole occupant of the car, identified as Nations, and detained him.
During an interview, Nations told officers he had only gone to Walmart and then came back to the apartment building, and indicated that his wife, whose name the car was registered under, had not driven the car that day. Nations then invoked his Miranda rights and did not provide further comment to officers.
Officers were able to collect video surveillance from the 1300 block of North Union Boulevard, which reportedly showed the hit-and-run occurring. The affidavit states that in the video, the victim can be seen getting out of his Subaru and walking toward the Equinox from the middle of two lanes.
Courtesy: Colorado Springs Police Department
“The driver [of the Equinox] intentionally turned the Equinox into [the victim] causing him to fall to the ground and continued to drag him several feet. The Equinox fled the scene,” the affidavit reads.
Nations was booked into the El Paso County Criminal Justice Center on charges of first-degree assault.
