In a shocking and extremely tragic incident, a woman, Mikaela Barboza, 26, fell prey to an incident of road rage.
Driving on US Route 441, little had she imagined that the day was going to end leaving her with a broken nose, and a severely injured head.
The fight, that happened in a parking lot in South Florida was sparked when Barboza cut the attackers off when she was driving. As the fight escalated, the women made it out to be a racial cause.
Barboza, shared two videos of the event, one taken by her just before the fight started and another one taken by her acquaintance from a distance when the fight was taking place.
In the first video, one can clearly see a woman approaching Barboza with a baseball bat in her hand. Another one can be seen and heard screaming obscenities from their car before both come at her and launched an attack.
Barboza can be heard telling the woman that she has a kid and the woman responds that even she does but that does not change anything. The woman can also be seen swinging the bat.
The clip ends when the women attack Barboza and her phone falls to the ground. In the second video shot by someone else, the three women can be seen engaged in a fight.
One of the attackers wrestled with Barboza in the parking lot and soon the third woman with the started to hit her. Several bystanders rushed to the spot asking the women to stop the attack.
One of them took the baseball bat from the attacker and pinned it to the ground with his foot to prevent her from picking it up and attacking Barboza again. However, it was too late.
She had already been gravely injured. Her nose was broken and she ended up getting seven stitches in her head which was bleeding profusely due to the attack with the baseball bat.
She also got seven staples on her head. After people intervened the women made it look like an attack instigated due to a racial remark, but Barboza denied it completely.
She claimed that she did not have even a single racial bone in her body and had said nothing racist to provoke the attack. According to her, the women got agitated because she cut them on the road.
She further added that people who know her know that she is not at all racist. They felt disrespected because Barboza had cut them off. They began yelling at her on the road itself and it was out of fear for her safety that she pulled into the parking lot which was close by.
She was alarmed when the women followed her to the parking lot. That’s when she called the police. By then the women had blocked her car.
Soon they were engaged in a verbal spat that became ugly by the second even as Barboza tried to reason out with the woman. There was a kid sitting in their car while all this was happening.
The fight started with the second woman hitting Barboza with a metal bat on her head that threw the camera to the ground.
She was hit by both of them several times with the bat. But her nose has been most badly injured as Barboza cannot even breathe through it.
She has filed a police complaint but there have been no leads to the case so far as the women fled the scene before the officials reached the area. Barboza confirmed her daughter was not in the car at the time of the attack as she was headed for a meeting that day.
