Tech CEO on bike arrested in California road rage beating [View all]
Source: San Francisco Chronicle
A Marin County technology executive was arrested on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon after he got off his bicycle and beat a motorist unconscious during an alleged act of road rage in Mill Valley, a city police official said.
Witnesses reported that Jeffrey Smock, 40, of Kentfield was the aggressor in the April 16 altercation and refused to stop beating the 55-year-old motorist after he was down - even as onlookers shouted and honked their car horns, said Mill Valley Lt. Ken Dunkel.
Smock, an avid cyclist, is the founder and former chief executive of Iron Data, an Atlanta software company now headquartered in Arlington, Va. Prior to that, Smock ran LightNetworks, an Atlanta-based telecommunications firm. Efforts to reach him were unsuccessful.
The alleged attack occurred in the evening at the busy intersection of East Blithedale Avenue and Camino Alto. According to police, Smock and the motorist were at odds over whether the truck's mirror had struck Smock's bike as both men traveled along East Blithedale.
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