Man Dragged By Pickup After Bizarre Altercation

WESTMINSTER, Colo. (CBS4) - Westminster police are hunting for a driver who grabbed a man on Harlan Way very early Sunday morning and then dragged him down the road.

The incident left Jordan Sweaney, 20, with a fractured skull, broken neck and jaw. He says he slapped the side of the Chevy pickup after it almost hit him.

"I'm in agonizing pain. I should be dead but by the grace of God I'm not," Sweaney said. "If anybody knows who this person is I want them to contact them to help him get caught."

The driver reportedly circled back, grabbed Sweany by his shirt then drove off with him dangling out the window.

"When he came back I tried apologizing to him," Sweany said. "He grabbed me, he grabbed me and stuck me like halfway in the truck, then he started driving down the road really fast."

"He was going about 30 miles per hour when he fell from that car," friend and witness Benjamin Smith said.

The driver was a white man in his 20s, about 6 feet tall and 175 pounds with a southern accent. The pickup was a large Chevy and might have "Z-71" somewhere on it.

Police say there are a handful of witnesses who refused to cooperate because of the group they claim to be association with. Police say those potential witnesses said they were associated with the "Jugalos," a group of fans that follow the band Insane Clown Posse.

"The group was very profane and threatening to the officers. Officers had to move the group away from Sweaney so paramedics could actually treat him," Trevor Materasso with Westminster police said.

Westminster police say Jugalos are not classified as a gang in Colorado, but according to the FBI's 2011 National Gang Threat Assessment, the agency classifies the fans as a "fast-growing, violent and loosely-organized hybrid gang."