PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — Police in Prince William County are looking for a bald, heavy-set man driving a Kia Soul after a woman reported having a firearm pointed at her during a road rage incident in the Woodbridge area.
According to the Prince William County Police Department, officers responded to the intersection of Richmond Highway and Featherstone Road south of Woodbridge just before 2 p.m. on Tuesday, August 9 for a report of a brandishing.
https://www.wric.com/news/northern-v...in-woodbridge/
Pikesville resident Ronald McKnight, 29, is facing multiple assault and weapon charges after allegedly threatening another man during the road-rage incident, which was reported at approximately 6:20 p.m. on Wednesday, June 29 on Pulaski Highway near Harbor Road.
It is alleged that the victim told state police investigators that he pulled up behind McKnight’s Honda CRV, which was stopped in the middle of a travel lane on Pulaski Highway shortly before he was threatened.
Police said that the victim honked his horn at McKnight, though the CRV did not move, prompting him to walk up to the driver’s side of the vehicle to check on his well-being, believing him to be unresponsive.
When the victim approached the vehicle he found that McKnight was allegedly pointing a handgun at him through the window, according to state police. McKnight then fled the area.
https://dailyvoice.com/maryland/harf...police/836527/
Alexandria Police are investigating a road rage incident involving the brandishing of a firearm in Old Town.
The incident occurred at around 6:22 p.m. while the 57-year-old female victim was driving near the intersection of Cameron and N. Washington Streets. The victim was not injured.
Police are searching for one suspect who allegedly pulled out a handgun, although did not provide a description of the suspect or the vehicle.
https://www.alxnow.com/2022/04/28/po...t-in-old-town/
Last year was one of the deadliest years on record for the United States. In 2021, gun homicides and non-suicide-related shootings took approximately 20,700 lives—a 6 percent increase from the first year of the pandemic in 2020, which already saw a significant increase in gun violence over 2019. At the same time, reports of road rage shootings increased significantly. The data is clear: With easy access to guns, road rage can turn deadly.
Experiencing aggressive driving on the road is not uncommon—roughly eight in 10 drivers surveyed by the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety reported experiencing at least one incident in the month before the survey. But the presence of a gun can turn such an encounter from a few unpleasant minutes into a dangerous incident for the drivers involved, their passengers, and pedestrians as well.
Using Gun Violence Archive’s database to analyze road rage incidents involving a gun, Everytown Research & Policy determined that the number of road rage injuries and deaths have increased yearly since 2018. Rising to more than 500 people shot and wounded or killed in over 700 incidents, 2021 was tragically the worst year on record for road rage shootings. In other words, a person was shot and either injured or killed in a road rage incident every 17 hours, on average, during 2021.
In 2021, an average of 44 people per month were shot and killed or wounded in road rage shootings—double the pre-pandemic average.
https://everytownresearch.org/report...e-on-the-rise/
These road rage gun events worry me. I dont out at night anymore unless its a high end restaurant and movie, dont get all drunk ... but i do drive at least 2 hours a day and eventually you end dealing with an aggressive asshole driver.
id like to see enhanced penalties for road rage incidents when a gun is involved.
When a drug dealer or some drunk tough guy who gets shot at 2 am, theres a level of the victim putting themselves somewhat in danger.
When its dads and moms driving to work or the grocery store at 2:30 in the afternoon ... that just hits different.