One man’s temper caused a chaotic scene in Dallas recently during morning traffic, and it’s all on surveillance tape.
Twenty-six-year-old Angel Zamora Moreno of Plano is accused of starting a melee on the LBJ freeway when he hit several cars, then stabbed a man, and then carjacked several different vehicles and struck other motorists.
Witness Jonathan McCain said he had never seen anything like what he witnessed that morning, despite having many “crazy moments in my life.”
Arrest paperwork indicates Moreno started the conflagration when he ran into a tractor trailer and three other cars. The wreck made his own car undrivable. When the people he hit got out of their cars to look over the damage, police say Moreno started going after them with an 8-inch knife.
Witness McCain said Moreno got out of his wrecked car and went around to rummage in the trunk. Then he opened a red toolkit and pulled out the knife. Moreno allegedly sideswiped McCain’s car just moment’s earlier.
Like some kind of crazed animal, Moreno reportedly started jumping on other cars, smashing one windshield in. When another driver tried to stop the rampaging man with a metal pipe, Moreno allegedly stabbed him in the stomach and the ear. Thankfully, a good Samaritan who was watching the insane display helped the stabbing victim, but Moreno took after the pair again. He then carjacked a state department of transportation truck and went for the pair. According to witnesses, he then turned the truck on the state worker he stole it from and ran him over, leaving the man with multiple injuries.
Then it happened again. A medical worker on scene jumped out of her car to help the wounded transportation worker, and Moreno jumped into her now-unoccupied car and ran her over, dragging her through two lanes of traffic.
The deranged man then tried to escape the scene but a group of people held him down until police arrived.
Police arrested Moreno for aggravated assault, unauthorized use of a vehicle, and criminal mischief. They booked him into the Dallas County Jail where he awaits formal charges from the District Attorney.
