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Imagine saying goodbye to your grandkid at a bus stop,

only to have a savage stranger yank you from your car

and drag your body like roadkill for nearly half a mile.

That is the gut-wrenching fate that befell 67-year-old Donald Russell,

a devoted grandfather, whose routine drop-off in Toledo, Ohio, erupted into a deadly nightmare,

one that ended with his attacker smashed to smithereens on a roaring interstate. The horror kicked off at the Greyhound

Station on Emerald Avenue. Russell had just bid farewell to his granddaughter, Anaya Fell,

when 38-year-old Jesse Motz pounced. Moats, a father of three from West Virginia, allegedly

assaulted the senior and hijacked his red Ford

fusion. In a scene of pure carnage, Russell became entangled in his own seatbelt and was dragged

approximately half a mile to South Erie Street, his body grinding against the pavement.

Granddaughter Anita Fell spoke to KTBX, 3 News.

My grandpa was dragged out of the car by his feet.

Somebody hijacked the car and was pulling him out of the car when I was just so scared.

The brutal friction tore the clothes from his back and left him scraped raw with kidney failure and critical

internal wounds. While Russell initially clung to life in a coma, Toledo police confirmed

he succumbed to the catastrophic injuries on February 23rd. Karma, however, did not miss its exit.

Modes barreled onto northbound I-75, lost control and wrecked the stolen car.

In a frantic bid to escape on foot, the carjacker leaped over a cement barrier and sprinted

directly into the path of a commercial semi-truck.

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