2nd Good Samaritan recounts details of violent incident on Alaska Highway near Watson Lake, Yukon

When Tom Stewart was driving his shuttle bus on his scheduled run near Watson Lake around 8 p.m. on March 16, he came across an overturned vehicle on the highway and pulled over.

Stewart, who has first aid training, put on his hazards, grabbed his satellite phone and told his passengers he was going to check out the situation.

"As I got there, two occupants were crawling out [of the overturned vehicle] and I was concerned. 'Are you okay? Can I check you out and all that?'" he asked.

"They started getting kind of volatile, yelling."

What Stewart didn't know was that the vehicle, a white 2021 Toyota RAV4, had been reported stolen in Dawson City a day earlier.

Stewart said he and another trucker, who had also pulled over, tried to talk to the three individuals to calm them down, but it wasn't working.

He said when they did talk, they said they had warrants out for their arrests. And they asked Stewart what he was doing.

With his satellite phone in his hands, he told them he was going to call an ambulance and the RCMP to get them some help.

"And that's when they attacked me," he said. "And one of them ripped the phone off my hand and threw it on the ground and I guess he kind of wrecked it."

"And so I backed away and so did the other trucker."

Then another trucker pulled up, said Stewart, as he went back to his shuttle bus to check on his passengers.

He said that when he looked from his shuttle, he saw the people from the overturned vehicle climbing into the semi-tractor trailer of the trucker who had just stopped to help out.

"I went over there, tried to stop them, but decided not to because they were getting more violent so I backed away," he said.

He said the individuals drove away in the truck. Soon after, he said, another trucker stopped by and told them he saw a truck stuck in a ditch not too far away.