The driver of a Tesla suspected of attacking motorists with a metal pipe in two recent road-rage incidents previously terrorized and threatened to kill a Long Beach woman whom he was dating, according to court records.
In a 15-page domestic violence restraining order request filed last year in Los Angeles Superior Court, the 41-year-old woman said Nathaniel Radimak, 36, punched and choked her and vowed to kill her family in a series of violent encounters from 2019 to 2022.
“He threatened to use (a) lug wrench tool to bash my head,” she wrote in the request. “Threatened to buy a knuckle four-finger fist ring to hit me. He states that my body will be floating at the bottom of the ocean dissolving.”
Radimak was arrested Sunday, Jan. 29, at a car wash in Torrance following a tip to the California Highway Patrol.
Radimak is charged with four counts each of criminal threats and assault by means of force likely to produce great bodily injury and one felony count of vandalism. He also faces two misdemeanor counts of vandalism and one misdemeanor count of elder abuse.
He pleaded not guilty Tuesday and is expected to return to court for a preliminary hearing setting on Feb. 14.
“The victims, in this case, were reasonably terrified by what they experienced, but this reign of terror ends today,” District Attorney George Gascón said in a statement Tuesday. “Motorists in Los Angeles shouldn’t have to live in fear of being attacked while simply driving on the freeway. Our office will continue to work with our partners in law enforcement to determine if this person has committed similar acts against people in Los Angeles County and elsewhere.”
Radimak, suspected of driving a black 2022 Tesla Model X, is accused of using a pipe on Jan. 11 to strike a motorist’s car on the 2 Freeway near York Boulevard in Los Angeles.
Later that day, Radimak allegedly followed a couple from a shopping mall in Pasadena and nearly struck their car with his vehicle. He also…
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