MIAMI -- Police are searching for a man accused of breaking another man's neck in a fight over a tomato.

According to Miami-Dade police, the fight broke out at about 9:15 a.m. on Jan. 28.

Police said 44-year-old Robert Lerner, of Miami Beach, was driving with his daughter to the Redlands for a photo shoot. The child asked her father if she could pick a tomato.

Lerner pulled over on Southwest 288th Street between 172nd and 177th avenues, where the girl picked a tomato from a nearby grove.

That's when, Lerner said, another man pulled a Jeep over in front of his vehicle, jumped out of the car, started yelling at Lerner and called him a thief.

The argument turned into a physical fight, during which Lerner was thrown to the ground and suffered fractures in his neck and spinal column, Miami-Dade police said.

Lerner now has two Titanium plates in the front and back of his neck. He said his injuries hurt, but he feels a different kind of pain for his daughter.

"I can only imagine how scared she must have been. That's probably the worst part for me is what she went through," Lerner said of his daughter.

Police said the attacker escaped in a blue or green Jeep Wrangler with a flat finish and plastic windows and panels. The man is described as between 40 and 60 years old, 5 feet 9 inches tall and 175 pounds with light-colored salt-and-pepper hair. Police released a sketch of the man on Monday.

No arrest has been made. Anyone with information is asked to call Miami-Dade Crime Stoppers at 305-471-TIPS (8477).