Exclusive: Philly man beaten after crash on Roosevelt Boulevard, family says

A 48-year-old Philadelphia man is recovering in the hospital after at least five men brutally attacked him following a car crash on Roosevelt Boulevard on Oct. 30, he exclusively told NBC10. Saintilus Metelus says he was driving home from work near Mascher Street in the city s Olney neighborhood when two men in a white Jeep Cherokee rear-ended his vehicle. Metelus says he got out of his car after the crash, and the situation quickly escalated into a violent attack. Cellphone video recorded by a witness and also exclusively obtained by NBC10 shows Metelus being beaten along Roosevelt Boulevard. Metelus, who immigrated to the United States from Haiti in 2021, suffered head trauma and cuts to his body. Speaking from his hospital bed through family members translating his Haitian Creole, Metelus described the physical and emotional toll of the attack. He said emotionally he is not ok at all. He said if he didn’t have a wife, who he loves and people around him who he