A black man in Iowa was allegedly assaulted by three white men who assumed he was breaking into a nearby home, according to reports.

DarQuan Jones, 22, wants answers in what he and NAACP officials are calling a racially motivated assault early Saturday in Des Moines, where he was visiting his girlfriend, the Des Moines Register reports.

The white men, who appeared to be intoxicated, asked Jones why he was there after he knocked on his girlfriend’s door. He identified himself before they pounced on him, he said.

“When I saw they were stumbling, I already knew something wasn’t going to go right,” he told the newspaper.

Jones fled, but the trio caught up with him in a nearby field and choked and punched him, he said.

“I couldn’t breathe, I just kept blacking out,” Jones said. “I could see my whole life just going in and out, in and out.”

The suspects started dragging Jones to a creek, causing him to think he was going to be killed. He then heard a gun being cocked before two women came outside after hearing him scream, sending the men scurrying as they yelled racial slurs, Jones said.

Jones, who detailed the incident Tuesday with Des Moines NAACP officials, suffered multiple facial fractures, a broken nose and a broken arm in the attack, WHO-TV reports.

“I just want to know why did it have to be this brutal, why did it have to go this far?” Jones asked Tuesday. “Where my life was almost taken? Like, why?”

Jones and witnesses told cops at least one of his attackers said racial slurs during the assault, a Des Moines police spokesman told NBC News.

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