Road Rage Beating of Elderly Driver Ends With Prison Term

ROCKVILLE, MD — A Gaithersburg man who pulled an elderly Olney man out of his car window and beat him so severely he suffered brain damage was sentenced to six years in prison.

Ryan Wallace, 26, of Gaithersburg was sentenced Thursday for second-degree assault in the May 7, 2015, beating that required his victim, Arthur Walker, 75, of Olney, to re-learn how to walk, talk and write his name. In addition to the prison sentence, Wallace was ordered to pay $20,000 in restitution.

Walker was driving home from Rockville when a pickup truck driven by Wallace tailgated him, then cut in front of Walker and sped by. Prosecutors say Walker yelled at Wallace, who then waited for the older driver to pass him and chased him for about eight miles.

Walker called 911 during the chase and told the dispatcher, “I've got a crazy man on my tail. He is trying to run me off the road,” reports FOX DC.

At the intersection of Bowie Mill Road and Rt. 108 in Olney, Wallace got out of his truck, pulled Walker out of his vehicle's window, and beat him.

"The judge, she really didn't like it at all that he beat up on an old man like me," Walker told WJLA after the sentencing.