Couple sought in assault over handicap parking spot

LAFAYETTE, Colo. -- Police are searching for two suspects they say were involved in a fight that started over a handicapped parking spot at a hospital, reports CBS Denver.

According to the station, a couple was waiting for a handicapped parking spot to open up.

Robert Hat's wife had come to get a cast removed, so he had gone to get a wheelchair.

"And while I'm sitting, there this little gray car with a male driver and a female passenger, they come around me on the driver's side, between the sidewalk and the driver's side of my vehicle, the young lady flips me off and pulls into another spot that's vacating," his wife, Carol, told CBS Denver.

Robert came back to the car, where the couple says profanities were exchanged. Then, it got violent, they told the station.

Robert had previously suffered a broken vertebrae and traumatic brain injury, according to the station.

"He drew back and threw a punch at me and hit me here, basically in the collar, in the cheek, and it didn't really hurt, but if he would have hit me hard... I would be paralyzed," said Robert.

The suspects soon sped out of the parking lot after Carol and Robert called 911. Police reportedly tried to stop the gray Hyundai.

The suspects were reportedly captured on surveillance tape and police have released the images of one of them. They reportedly face felony charges of eluding police and assaulting an at-risk person.

Anyone with information about the suspects or the incident is asked to call Lafayette Police at (303) 665-5571.