Reality TV stars Patrik Simpson and Pol’ Atteu targeted in road rage incident caught on video in Hollywood

HOLLYWOOD, LOS ANGELES (KABC) — A violent case of road rage was caught on video in the heart of Hollywood over the weekend, and now, the two reality TV stars who were targeted are sharing their story.

Patrik Simpson and Pol’ Atteu are fashion experts who co-host the show “Gown and Out Beverly Hills” and the “Undressed” podcast.

Now, they’re speaking about what happened to them on Sunday in hopes that their attacker will be caught.

The incident happened at Melrose Avenue and Vine Street. The couple said the driver of a Toyota 4Runner blocked their vehicle at the intersection before getting out of his vehicle.

Atteau and Simpson sat stunned in sheer terror as the man approached them.

“He gave me this death glare, like, literally, I thought he was going to kill us,” Simpson, who recorded the video, said.

The reality stars say the violent interaction came without warning as they sat at the intersection around 9:20 a.m.

“Drove on the wrong side of the road, pulled in front of us diagonal, and trapped our car,” Simpson recalled. “We couldn’t turn left. We couldn’t turn right. We couldn’t go forward. We did not know what was going on.”

“Lock the door. Lock the door. Call the police!” Simpson exclaims in the video as the man is seen punching and kicking their driver’s side window and door.

“I thought, ‘If this man is going back to the car, he’s going to get something… I’m dead. I’m literally… dead.’ This is that moment where I’m faced with that fear of, ‘I’m just going to die here. This is it,'” Atteu, who was driving at the time, said.

Unable to smash through their glass window, the man returned to his 4Runner and took off.

“He punched the window… blood on the car. His hand was bleeding. That’s how hard he hit the car,” Simpson said.

The couple followed the escaping assailant for several miles, against the advice of a 911 dispatcher who told them not to follow the driver.

“I wanted the license plate because if we did not have the license plate, we would not be able to find this man, so we can make him be accountable for what he did,” Simpson said.

The couple says they still can’t figure out what triggered the man in the first place.

“It’s got to be mistaken identity, because I don’t know who this person is. I don’t know where this person came from,” Atteu said. “It just didn’t make sense, like, 9:20 in the morning, and when I’m looking in through the window, as much as I could see, there was someone in the passenger seat holding a baby.”

Now, still shaken by the violent punch and kick to their car, the design stars are desperate to hold the man accountable.

“This guy has so much rage in him. He doesn’t care who he is doing this to, why he’s doing it,” Atteu said.

So far, the couple says they have not been able to identify the driver. They passed his license plate number to investigators when they filed the police report. Los Angeles police said they did not have an update on the case.