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CLAY COUNTY, MO – The 72-year-old man that was the victim of a brutal roadside beating that transpired in Clay County earlier in May, when he was acting as a Good Samaritan trying to help a stranded driver, is speaking out about the experience.
Needless to say, this elderly man that was beaten within an inch of his life on the interstate says he’ll likely never help a stranded driver again.
On May 4th, 72-year-old Jason Jones was driving toward Kansas City on I-35 when he had seen a driver that had a blown-out tire pulled over on the side of the road.
The occupants from the stranded vehicle were later identified as 19-year-old Choyce Davis and a juvenile female.
Jones had pulled over to help the two people from the stranded vehicle, noting that the man later identified as Davis was a bit “stand-offish”:
Davis and the juvenile female were said to have jumped into Jones’s van where he later took them to a couple of salvage yards to search for a spare tire for the one that had blown out.
According to Jones, they eventually found a tire and the three hopped back into Jones’s van where he proceeded to drive them back to where their vehicle located near the Holt exit on the I-35:
“We got their tire, got back in the van and just barely started off. All the sudden something hit me on top of the head.”
While in the van, the juvenile female had allegedly grabbed what was described as a metal rod and struck Jones in his skull. After getting hit with the metal rod, Jones attempted to stop the juvenile female but wound up veering off the side of the road:
“I knew what was happening. We were going in the ditch. So I turned around, grabbed the draw pin, opened the door and dived out on my head.”
Davis had allegedly grabbed Jones by the neck and started choking him while punching him in the face multiple times. Jones described the feeling of helplessness during the attack, noting that with his age there was nothing he could do but simply endure the beating.