‘They jumped on my dad’: 63-year-old brutally beaten following minor crash, family says

JENNINGS, Mo. (KMOV/Gray News) - A Missouri family is pleading for answers after a minor traffic crash over the weekend escalated into a violent attack.St. Louis County Police said they responded to the reported crash Saturday evening at an intersection in Jennings.Investigators say a 63-year-old man, identified by his family as retired truck driver Lance Jeffries, rear-ended another vehicle.Lance reportedly got out of his car to check on the occupants of the other vehicle. That is when several people exited their car, confronted him angrily and began assaulting him.“From what we know, they were angry because my dad hit the back of their car,” the man’s daughter, Valancia Jeffries, said. “When he got out of the car to check on the other party, they got out of the car angry and yelling at my dad, and they jumped on my dad.”Bystander video circulating on social media appears to show multiple people surrounding Lance Jeffries, kicking him, dragging him and repeatedly punching him while he