Samaritan shaken by run-in with suspect

FALL RIVER, Mass. (WPRI) -- A wild police chase through several communities, a fugitive arrested, and an innocent motorist caught in the middle of it all.

The Good Samaritan who dropped what he was doing to help another man, who later turned out to be a fugitive, speaks about his harrowing experience.

"I have never been through nothing like this before in my life," said Louis Nunes. "I'm still a little shaken up by this."

It all started Tuesday afternoon when Fall River police tried to arrest 25-year-old Cleveland Clay for an alleged domestic incident. Police tell us when they converged on his car, Clay smashed into two cruisers and took off.

He eventually abandoned his car, took off on foot, and ran on to I-195. That's when his world collided, quite literally, with Nunes'.

"I was coming up the ramp onto 195, this kid jumps out of the woods," he said. "I had no time to stop, and I hit him."

Nunes had no idea the man that he hit was on the run from the law, so he offered to transport him to the hospital for treatment.

"I started heading towards Providence, the next thing I know, I've got state troopers in my back, on my side, and I get taken out of my truck at gunpoint," Nunes added.

Both Nunes and police quickly realized what was going on, and Clay was taken into custody. As for Nunes, he says he never felt threatened throughout the whole ordeal, but he tells us that his faith in good deeds has been shaken.

"I've always been the type of person to help everybody, and I don't know if I can do that again," he said.

Clay was treated for a broken leg at Rhode Island Hospital, and he now faces numerous charges from the Fall River Police Department.