Fort Worth man beaten in road rage incident

[TexasStooge]

By KARIN KELLY / WFAA-TV

Fort Worth police are investigating a road rage attack that left a man clinging to life in the hospital, and may have been a case of mistaken identity.

Family members say Steven "Kent" Schnable is neither an angry driver nor a confrontational man. Yet police believe he was attacked early Thursday morning, allegedly by a pickup truck driver who lost his temper somewhere along I-30 or I-35 near downtown Fort Worth.

"They don't know exactly what happened - it all happened so fast," said the victim's sister Jill Schnable Malo. "Once Kent went down, the guys evidently said 'we're out of here,' or 'come on, let's go.'"

Outside John Peter Smith Hospital, Schnable's wife, family and friends support one another as they wait, praying for the 38-year-old man to improve from a serious brain injury.

"They think there could be permanent damage," Schnable's wife Amanda said. "The next 48 hours are critical - that's what they told us."

Schnable and one passenger, a friend, were returning home after visiting an Arlington club. The victim's friend told police the incident happened on the Rosedale exit off of I-35 sometime after 2:30 a.m.

Schnable's truck may have been forced to stop by a late-model blue GMC or Chevy truck. Three men got out, and so did Schnable and his friend.

"We don't know what he was hit with, that's what we don't know," Malo said.

"We're going to have to backtrack and see where the victim was and his friend, and then how they came into contact with the suspects," said Lt. Billy Cordell said.

The victim's passenger told police it may have been a case of mistaken road rage. Another driver may have angered the attacker, and he took revenge on the wrong man.

"Somebody has seen something, and that's the people we need to step up and call us and give us some answers to what's going on," Cordell said. "(And) there were two people in the blue truck that were not involved in assaulting our victim, and we need those two people to step up and do the right thing."

"We're praying for a miracle," Amanda Schnable said.

[sunny]

Some people are just out-right crazy. I hope this man pulls through.

[CaptinCrunch]

I hope they find the people responsible and jail them for a long time!!!!

[hurricanedude]

have tended to many of these situations here with the FHP