Update: ‘It’s Unsettling He’s Been Released’: Reality TV Hosts Granted Protective Order After Hollywood Road Rage Attack

Update, April 3: Kevin Antonio Hernandez has been released following his arrest, according to statements provided to WEHOonline by Pol’ Atteu and Patrik Simpson. A court has granted the couple an order of protection.

“While we understand the legal process must run its course, knowing the man who carried out this violent road-rage attack has been charged is an important step toward accountability,” Simpson said. “What happened that day was extremely threatening, and in the moment I truly feared for my life. We’re grateful that authorities took the incident seriously and granted us an order of protection so we can feel safe moving forward.”

Atteu said the incident reopened wounds from a previous attack. “The incident was incredibly frightening and brought back painful memories of a violent hate crime I experienced years ago,” he said. “While it’s unsettling knowing he has been released, we trust the legal system will ensure accountability and that this situation will be handled appropriately.”

Atteu and Simpson are releasing a full episode of their podcast, Undressed with Pol’ and Patrik, tonight recounting the entire incident in their own words.

Original story published March 30th below

“He hit the window so hard.” Pol’ Atteu was sitting in his Mercedes at Melrose and Vine Sunday morning when a stranger got out of a Toyota 4Runner and started beating the car. Atteu and his husband Patrik Simpson, hosts of the Amazon Prime reality show “Gown and Out in Beverly Hills,” captured it on video.

The man had blocked them at the light around 9:28 a.m., cut diagonal across the lane so they couldn’t move, then got out kicking and punching.

“Terrifying road rage in the middle of L.A. at 9:20 in the morning,” Atteu said. “He hit the window so hard.”

Simpson saw him coming and told Atteu to lock the doors.

“I’m telling him, ‘Lock the car, lock the car,’ because we couldn’t move,” he said.

“This is it, I’m going to die here,” Atteu said. He’s lived in L.A. 25 years. Said he’d never felt that before.

Then it got worse. The man walked to the back of the 4Runner and appeared to be searching for something.

“We had no idea what he might pull out,” Simpson told WEHOonline. “The way he singled me out and kept pointing and yelling was very, very scary.”

When the man got back in the 4Runner, the couple followed and called 911. He ran every light, every stop sign. Kids were in the backseat.

“I thought, ‘You’re on something,'” Atteu said.

They pulled back eventually. LAPD took a report. The driver was long gone.

For Atteu, the attack impacted him differently. Years earlier he was the victim of a violent homophobic hate crime. Sunday brought it back.

“When someone aggressively approached our car screaming and attacking it, it was very triggering,” he told WEHOonline. “No one should have to relive that kind of fear just driving down the street. We were on our way to spend the morning with kids from charity organizations.”

Simpson said he couldn’t make sense of how it started, or whether they were picked deliberately.

“I don’t know if he knew who we were,” he said. “I think it was very weird that this car comes right in front of us, parks diagonal, traps us, we can’t go anywhere and then just starts beating the car. I don’t get it.”

The suspect is a big guy. In the video you see a heavyset male with a dark beard and glasses with clear frames. Irony of all ironies, he was wearing a black “Don’t Panic It’s Organic” graphic t-shirt and also had visible sleeve tattoos. He was driving a gray Toyota 4Runner with a roof rack.

Neither man was hurt. The car took damage. Atteu posted the video hoping someone recognizes the driver. Anyone with information is urged to contact LAPD Hollywood Division at (213) 972-2971.

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