The man accused of operating Ohio Republican Rep. Max Miller’s car off a freeway earlier this week turned himself in, authorities introduced Friday.
Feras Hamdan, 36, of Westlake, Ohio, is awaiting a court docket look on an aggravated menacing cost after voluntarily surrendering with an legal professional current, in keeping with a news release from police in Rocky River, a Cleveland suburb.
Native authorities, Capitol Police, Ohio State Freeway Patrol, the FBI and the U.S. Lawyer’s Workplace of the Northern District of Ohio are investigating the alleged street raid incident.
Miller has additionally sought a restraining order in opposition to Hamdan.
Miller’s workplace declined to remark due to the pending investigation.
“As I used to be driving to work, some unhinged, deranged man determined to put on his horn and run me off the street, when he could not get my consideration, to indicate me a Palestinian flag, to not point out demise to Israel, demise to me — that he wished to kill me and my household,” Miller said in a video posted to the social platform X on Thursday.
Miller, who’s Jewish, described the incident as “blatant antisemitic violence” within the video.
The lawmaker servied as an aide to President Trump throughout his first time period within the White Home.