Families of a murder suspect and his alleged victim came to blows after a court hearing Tuesday, with part of the altercation caught on video.

Court officers stepped in to separate members of the families of Ryan Sweatt, who was arraigned Tuesday on a charge of murder, and 26-year-old Destini Decoff, who was killed in what prosecutors have labeled a case of road rage that occurred on April 4.

Sweatt, 36, had pleaded not guilty to charges of “assault and battery with a dangerous weapon causing serious bodily injury, operating to endanger and a marked lanes violation,” WBZ-TV reported, but now faces a murder charge after Decoff succumbed to her injuries while on life support.

t”Now that the woman he is accused of hitting has died, emotions have become a tidal wave,” WBZ reporter Christina Hager said.

You can see WBZ’s report on the arraignment below.

Sweatt claims that Decoff and four men “allegedly jumped out of their vehicle, surrounded him and threatened him” after an incident that occurred on Route 85 in Hopkinton, according to the outlet.

Sweatt reportedly told a police officer, “They’re trying to kill me,” but investigators say Sweatt escaped the threatening situation, make a U-turn, ran Decoff over and then fled the scene.

One witness told the outlet that Sweatt hit Decoff so hard with his car that he “clothes flew off.”

According to the Middlesex District Attorney’s Office, witnesses agreed that Sweatt came back to the scene before running Decoff down, and surveillance video from a nearby business appeared to corroborate that version of events, not Sweatt’s.

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Sweatt has been held without bail since the April 4 incident.