Left, center: Nathaniel Walter Radimak (YouTube/KABC). Right: Radimak booking photo (Honolulu Police Dept.)
A man who drives a Tesla on the west coast and is infamous for attacking fellow drivers, including a 74-year-old woman, found himself in a new altercation. This time, however, he was on the receiving end of the violence, as per authorities.
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A photo posted to Instagram purportedly shows a bloodied Nathaniel Walter Radimak at a hospital in Hawaii.
According to reports from a spokesperson for the prison system, the man was allegedly assaulted by other inmates who beat him up. He had recently been taken into custody for his involvement in two separate attacks in Honolulu: one on a mother and her teenage daughter during a parallel parking lesson and another on a woman in a gym.
The public information officer, Rosemarie Bernardo, stated, “Nathaniel Radimak was reportedly attacked by other inmates while in a housing unit at the Halawa Correctional Facility.” She added, as per Los Angeles ABC affiliate KABC, “He suffered injuries to his face and torso and was transported to a nearby hospital for medical attention.”
That incident remains under investigation.
Radimak attained infamy for a series of road rage attacks in Southern California dating back to January 2020, even going after as far as to wield a metal pipe during the attacks. Victims of his attacks and threats included a 74-year-old woman.
A court in 2023 sentenced him to five years behind bars, but he was paroled after serving less than one year of that sentence. He wound up in Hawaii, where authorities say he, again driving a Tesla, attacked an 18-year-old and her mother in Honolulu.
He is charged in that incident, but a third woman told local outlets she also had a violent run-in with Radimak at a Planet Fitness, where he allegedly ranted at her, threatened to hit her in the face, and took a swing at her. The woman provided Hawaii News Now with footage appearing to show the incident.
“It’s really terrifying,” she told Honolulu ABC affiliate KITV. “He’s proven time and time again that he’s a threat to society and especially to women.”
