WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. —A 37-year-old Canadian citizen of Egyptian heritage said he was confronted by an angry man and woman in a Wal-Mart parking lot, and then followed home where he was attacked in his driveway.

The attack started as a flash-in-the-pan road rage incident about 5:45 p.m. Saturday in the West Lafayette Wal-Mart parking lot in Indiana and ended in the his driveway, where a man punched and kicked the professor while the woman yelled from the driver’s seat, “Kill him! Kill him!”

“They chased me until my driveway,” said the victim, who asked that his identity be kept private, “and they attempted to kill me on my driveway.”

On Saturday, police arrested 21-year-old Austin Bradley Gregory on preliminary charges of misdemeanor battery. He was released Sunday morning after posting a $250 bond.

The woman, who the Journal & Courier will not identify unless she is charged with a crime, went free, according to court documents. The professor, however, compares her culpability to that of a person who drives the getaway car for a bank robbery.

In a brief interview with the Journal & Courier on Wednesday, Gregory said the professor walked up to the car he was in and reached inside. Gregory said he was protecting his family and that’s when the fight started.

But two witnesses cited in the probable cause affidavit said the professor never made it to the car before Gregory punched him. A third witness said the professor reached inside the car but did not know if that was before or after Gregory punched him, according to court documents.

The attacks have caused the victim to reconsider his employment in the United States. He fears for the safety of his wife, his children and himself. Whether he remains here after the school year will depend on whether Gregory and the woman are formally charged.

“I will not stay here if I don’t see justice,” he said. “This country is not safe. There is no justice now.”

The victim shared his experience with a Muslim friend, who reported it to the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a civil rights organization for Muslims. That organization on Wednesday called for the woman’s arrest.

The council also called for Indiana to adopt hate laws that enhance sentences for crimes that target victims based on their religion, race or sexual orientation. The victim, who did not want the council contacted, does not want hate laws pushed here.

“I don’t want to take it to the political side,” the professor said