FORT LAUDERDALE, FLA. (WSVN) - New video shows the moment a man on a boat began crashing into other boats and a dock in Fort Lauderdale.
Early Saturday morning, Fort Lauderdale Police officers and Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission officials responded to the Bahia Mar Yachting Center after receiving calls about a drunk boater.
Panicked witnesses who watched the chaos unfold contacted 911 and began recording the incident.
“Oh, my God, no way!” said a witness.
“He’s gonna hit him again!” said another witness.
Witness Jeff Soulouque described what went down at the dock.
“Next thing you know, we heard this huge, loud noise, and then we look and it’s him, like he hit one of the guy’s boat that was docked,” he said.
As they waited for help to arrive, another person on the dock appears to point a firearm at the boat driver in an effort for him to stop.
Witness Leila tells 7News that bystanders were telling the boat driver to stop.
“Everyone was screaming at him to stop, and he was trying to leave. This is why one of the guys pulled out the gun on him,” she said.
Video shows several bystanders telling the driver to stop as he’s held at gunpoint from afar by another man.
“Turn off the boat,” a bystander is heard saying on video.
Officers responded and completed a not-in-custody, probable cause arrest form against the man.
Leila and Soulouque said there were two men on board the chaotic boat, and due to the boat crashing against other boats, one of them was injured.
“All his face was blood,” said Leila.
“He had a lot of blood,” said Soulouque. “There were two guys. One of them was badly injured ’cause one of them was hurt, and you could tell that they hit [the boat] so hard that the glass on his boat actually shattered.”
As sunrise rose on Saturday, damage to the man’s boat was apparent. Shattered glass was scattered among tumblers and a cooler, while the boat’s bow was missing chunks of fiberglass.
Those who remained on the scene and the boat owners of the crashed boats helped clean up the mess for several hours afterward.
“Didn’t expect that at all,” said Soulouque.
As of late Sunday, it remains unclear how many boats were damaged during the incident.
Upon the results of the toxicology report arriving, officials said they will arrest the man but as of early Monday morning, he is not in custody.
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