LEE COUNTY, Fla. — A man was arrested for the beating of a Vietnam Veteran during a road rage incident in North Fort Myers.

“I’m glad he’s not in a bar anymore taking selfies, bragging about leaving me in the road unconscious,” responded Jerry Greene after finding out that his alleged attacker was arrested and charged with aggravated battery on a person older than 65.

He is referring to a selfie that 33-year-old Marcus Smith of Lehigh Acres posted to social media — bragging that he beat a man and left him lying on U.S. 41 earlier this month.

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That selfie, sent to ABC7 and forwarded to the Lee County Sheriff’s Office, landed Smith in the Lee County Jail.

It didn’t take long for deputies to arrest Smith for the attack.

Greene was hospitalized just over two weeks after his attacker knocked two of his teeth out. According to an LCSO report, a punch from his attacker left him lying on the road… bloody and badly bruised, with a busted hip near the intersection of U.S. 41 and Pondella Road on October 5.

Greene said the attacker got in his white pickup that had been following with his high beams on and sped off.

The same scenario was accurately described by Smith, who said in a social media post, “left a dude sleeping at a red light at old 41 and Pondella”.

He took a picture of his bloody knuckle. Greene said that is likely from knocking his bottom teeth into the roof of his mouth, where doctors were forced to remove them.             

“That is where he got that bloody knuckle from,” Greene said.

It was enough evidence for Lee County deputies to arrest Smith.

Smith is charged with aggravated battery on a person 65 or older.

“I know there are other people who said they had some interaction with this particular truck,” Sheriff Marceno said.

One of those people who only wanted to use his first name, Jeff, contacted ABC7 and said he encountered the same white truck the same night Greene was attacked.

“Its lights were like bright halogen, and you could tell they were on high beams,” Jeff recalled.

As for Greene, he is learning to walk again with the help of a physical therapist who now visits him twice a week following his hip replacement.

“It’s a long recovery… but I’m getting there,” Greene said as he sat back in his chair to relax for the day.