A 22-year-old man has been arrested in Brazil after groping a woman and attempting to run her down with a vehicle following a gas station brawl, police say.
Security footage from the early morning of November 25 in Manaus shows a widespread fight that started inside the gas station and quickly spread out into the parking lot as more people became involved.
The brawl kicked off after a 22-year-old female student accused the suspect of groping her buttocks as she left the store in the Parque Dez neighborhood of Manaus.
The suspect, who has not been publicly named, has since been charged with attempted murder, bodily injury and property damage.
Security footage from the early morning of November 25 in Manaus, Brazil, a woman, 22, confronting a man at a gas station after he allegedly groped her buttocks
The woman was quickly followed by her boyfriend, who also confronted the groping suspect
The couple’s confrontation launched a massive brawl inside that store that later spilled into the parking lot
In CCTV footage, the woman is seen returning to the shop and hitting a man in the face after being groped by the door.
She is followed by another man, believed to be her boyfriend, who also confronts the group of men.
Soon after the confrontation, an all-out brawl breaks out and spills out into the parking lot outside.
While everyone was outside, the suspect is seen getting into his car and smashing into the vehicle that the woman was in.
His bumper got stuck to the woman’s vehicle, and he continued to drive back and forth before attempting to flee and striking a gas pump with his own car.
The suspect, who has not been publicly named, has since been charged with attempted murder, bodily injury and property damage
At one point in the brawl, a man can be seen holding the victim before she gets into a friend’s car
While everyone was outside, the suspect is seen getting into his Ford Ranger (the black truck pictured right) and smashing into the vehicle that the woman was in (far right corner)
His bumper got stuck to the woman’s vehicle, and he continued to drive back and forth before attempting to flee and striking a gas pump with his own car
The police identified the suspect and charge of attempted murder after analyzing security footage from the gas station, according to Acritica.com.
Police said that the victim’s boyfriend even tried to stop the suspect by getting into the man’s vehicle as he drove – in the process he got his arm stuck in the car door.
The victim told police that the incident occurred when she and her boyfriend stopped at the gas station to buy candy on the way home from a birthday party.
She said as she got into her friend’s car, the suspect ‘threw his car’ into the one she was in and ‘kept speeding up and dragging our car’.
Damage to the car the woman was in shows the bumper falling off the car that the victim was in at the time of the incident