Hero Dad Pointed at 'Piece of S---' Miley Cyrus Boys, Told How They Stomped, Kicked Defenseless Man

Donnie Rice stopped by the bar where his very pregnant stepdaughter was working to bring her some food.

A short time later, he said, Rice saw a man hit with an unprovoked punch and then viciously kicked and stomped after he slumped to the barroom floor.

That’s when Rice, 45, walked up and told them to stop.

“That’s enough,” Rice recalled telling the men. “You two are a piece of s---.”

The men did stop, Rice said, but only so they could turn on him. Rice said he was punched in the face and the “piece of s---” stomper and kicker — Daniel Lahey and Robert Krapil, both 28 — along with 28-year-old Ryan Elliott, knocked him to the floor and pummeled him some more.

Lahey and Krapil are on trial for allegedly attacking Rice, as well as Alex Hernandez, 35, and his girlfriend, 33-year-old Jennifer Baranski in the Miley Cyrus Boys bar beatings, which drew national attention because the accused were drinking and professing their admiration for the singer before the punching and stomping.

Another member of the crew, 28-year-old Jason Palacios, was allowed to walk free after pleading guilty to a misdemeanor. As part of his deal, Palacios agreed to testify against his pals.

Elliott has also already pleaded guilty, not only to the May 2014 attack in Lety’s Place on Hernandez, but to a prior unrelated aggravated battery at the Essington Road bar On the Rocks. His sucker punch of 42-year-old James Lanham left the man with a broken nose.

The two felony cases put Elliott in the county jail for 27 days.

In interviews with Patch, Hernandez said he was sitting at the bar when the Miley Cyrus Boys surrounded him. Elliott ordered him to “take your ass to the other end of the bar with all the other Mexicans,” then let loose with a few ethnic slurs before he punched him in the face. Elliott, Krapil, Lahey and Palacios proceeded to beat Hernandez while he was down.

Baranski tried to shield Hernandez from the blows, she and Hernandez said, but the four men, along with two others who have never been arrested or identified, beat her as well.

Rice’s stepdaughter, Danielle McCalla, also testified before him on Thursday. She gave birth three days after the attacks.

During his testimony, Rice told how he saw Lahey grip the bar and stomp on the back of Hernandez’s head. He said Krapil ran up and kicked Hernandez in the face.

“I seen him while the other guy was down, holding onto the bar, stepping on his head, that’s what he was doing,” Rice said as he pointed at Lahey.

The he pointed at Krapil and said, “I seen him running up and kicking him in the face.”

After Palacios punched him and Elliott, Krapil and Lahey rushed him, Rice said, he grabbed hold of Lahey and Krapil by their hockey sweaters and pulled them against him with Elliott in between.

“I was holding them so one wouldn’t get loose and stomp me like they did the other guy,” Rice explained. Still, he said, “I was on the ground with three guys beating on me.”

Rice’s face was a bruised, swollen mess after the Miley Cyrus Boys got through with him, according to photographs taken shortly after the attack.

Defense attorney David Sotomayor questioned whether Rice could actually be able to hold onto three men as they beat him, asking, “Have you ever been a professional wrestler?” and “Do you have any training in martial arts?”

Rice said he does not have training in martial arts and was never a professional wrestler.

Sotomayor also asked Rice to step off the witness stand and demonstrate how Lahey brought his foot down on the back of Hernandez’s head.

Rice did so, bracing himself with his right hand and forcefully stomping his left foot on the floor twice.