Good Samaritan says he tried to stop a former federal prosecutor from allegedly stabbing a driver
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00:00 Good Samaritan says he tried to stop a former federal prosecutor from allegedly stabbing
00:04 a driver after a crash on a Florida highway.
00:07 The former federal prosecutor involved in the early prosecution of a January 6 defendant
00:11 was arrested in the stabbing of a driver on a Florida highway after a crash last week,
00:16 authorities say, and new video shows a confrontation with a Good Samaritan who tried to intervene.
00:21 Tampa resident Ahmed Gahaf said the incident unfolded after he stopped to help an incapacitated
00:26 driver who appeared to be experiencing a medical episode on the I-275 southbound on September
00:32 26.
00:33 When the driver woke up, he accelerated forward, hit Gahaf's car and while attempting to
00:37 drive around Gahaf's car, he collided with a second car, according to the Florida Highway
00:41 Patrol.
00:42 Patrick Scruggs, a 39-year-old former federal prosecutor, was inside the second car that
00:47 was hit, according to Highway Patrol.
00:49 Gahaf told CNN that Scruggs stopped, got out of his car and went up to the vehicle that
00:53 had hit him.
00:54 Scruggs then shattered the driver's side window and attacked the driver inside with
00:58 a folding knife, leaving multiple stabs and cuts in the arm, according to a Florida Highway
01:03 Patrol arrest report.
01:05 Video taken by a witness and released by Highway Patrol shows Gahaf on the phone with a 911
01:10 operator and trying to stop Scruggs.
01:12 The video appears to show Scruggs making a swipe at Gahaf with his knife, which nearly
01:16 hit him in the chest, Gahaf said.
01:18 "I'm thinking he's coming to help, you know, he's coming to help, but he comes
01:21 in like he already has plans," Gahaf told CNN Sunday.
01:24 "I came in close to him to try to tell him to stop, and he came in close to me, like
01:29 one foot away from me, from my chest with the knife.
01:32 And he said, 'You two, you want to kill me?'
01:34 I backed from him and was still with 911, and he kept going to stab him, the driver."
01:39 Scruggs is now facing felony charges of armed burglary, aggravated assault and aggravated
01:44 battery with a deadly weapon, according to an arrest affidavit.
01:47 John Nolgren, Scruggs' attorney, noted his client's career as a federal prosecutor
01:51 in an email to CNN.
01:53 He urges the public to keep an open mind, saying his client has no prior criminal history.
01:57 "This was a chaotic situation involving multiple crashes caused by only one person
02:02 on one of our area's busiest bridges.
02:04 That person was not Mr. Scruggs.
02:06 There is much more to this incident than what is being reported, and we are diligently working
02:10 to bring to light the full facts of what occurred," wrote Nolgren.
02:13 Gahaf said he was shocked when he learned the knife-wielding man he confronted was a
02:17 former federal prosecutor.
02:18 "I cannot believe it.
02:20 You know, that's what drives me crazy.
02:22 He knows the law," he said.
02:23 Jail records show Scruggs was released 10 hours after he was first booked at the Pinellas
02:27 County Jail on a $65,000 bond.
02:31 Scruggs spent a decade at the Middle District of Florida's U.S. Attorney's Office in
02:34 Tampa as senior litigation counsel, according to his LinkedIn profile.
02:38 This summer, he joined a private law firm in Atlanta.
02:41 He was involved in the early prosecution of January 6th defendant Adam Johnson, known
02:45 as "Lectern Guy," for making off with Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi's lectern.
02:50 Lawrence and Thornberg told CNN in an email that Scruggs is no longer employed at its