Disturbing video shows apparent road-rage shooting at busy Florida intersection; male suspect faces murder charges



A Florida male and female have been arrested in connection with an apparent road-rage shooting in the middle of a busy intersection that left one dead and another in critical condition. The shooting was caught on video.

Around 4:17 p.m. Sunday, police dispatchers began receiving calls regarding a shooting at a busy intersection in Panama City.

Officers near the shooting began chasing the fleeing pickup truck.

An Instagram account titled "Bay County Bad Drivers" uploaded video of the shooting.

Video shows a red GMC Terrain SUV stopped at a red light with a gray Dodge Ram pickup truck directly behind it. Two males are seen standing outside the SUV before returning inside the vehicle.

When the light turns green, the trailing pickup truck aggressively accelerates to the left and whips next to the driver's side of the SUV. It appears that the pickup truck passenger's hand emerges from the truck's open window, and about a dozen gunshots are heard. The SUV comes to a stop in the middle of the intersection.

Police said the pickup truck attempted to flee the crime scene. Officers near the shooting began chasing the fleeing pickup truck.

Panama City Police said in a press release: "They pursued the suspect vehicle north on Hwy 231, while other officers responded to the scene."

WMBB-TV reported that during the chase, the pickup truck collided with a police car on an access road between a Mexican restaurant and a Holiday Inn.

Police arrested two suspects from the pickup truck roughly a mile from the shooting scene.

Panama City Police said two people in the red SUV were shot. One victim died soon after arriving at a local hospital. The other shooting victim was in critical condition.

The shooting victims' identities have yet to be released because the incident is an active homicide investigation, and next of kin are being notified.

Police arrested Jubal Simmons and Ivybella Encino, the New York Post said.

Simmons — the suspected shooter, the Post said — is facing a number of charges, including first-degree premeditated homicide-murder, three counts of first-degree attempted premeditated homicide-murder, discharging a firearm from a vehicle, destroying or altering evidence, and resisting an officer without violence, according to police records.

Encino was hit with charges of first-degree accessory to a crime, fleeing or eluding police, and aggravated assault on an officer, records also say.

Simmons is being held without bond. Encino is being held on a $850,500 bond.

Panama City Police said they are "grateful to all the witnesses who came forward with information and evidence in this case."

The PCPD urged anyone with additional information on the shooting to contact Panama City Police at 850-872-3100 or phone in a tip anonymously through Crime Stoppers at 850-785-TIPS (8477).

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Road-raging male blocks driver who's with pregnant girlfriend; charges at driver on foot, cops say — but driver has a gun



Houston police said a male in his 40s was aggressively driving a truck and swerving in and out of traffic on Interstate 610 around 9:30 p.m. Friday, KHOU-TV reported.

Police told the station the aggressive truck driver at some point targeted a car driven by a 20-year-old man whose pregnant girlfriend was a passenger.

The 20-year-old driver used to be a security guard, had handcuffs on him, detained the truck driver, and called police, authorities told KHOU.

Police told KHOU the truck driver started to "brake-check" the car and was being "extremely reckless." With that, the 20-year-old exited the interstate at McCarty Street to get away from the truck driver, but the truck driver followed him, the station said.

Police told KHOU the truck driver pulled up next to the 20-year-old's car at red light on McCarty Street and started yelling, indicating that he wanted to hurt the 20-year-old and his girlfriend.

Police added to the station that the 20-year-old motorist again tried to get away from the aggressive truck driver — but the truck driver actually drove into oncoming traffic lanes to swerve in front of 20-year-old and block him.

Police told KHOU the truck driver then got out and ran toward the 20-year-old driver's car with his hands near his pocket. Police told the station the 20-year-old driver feared for his life and opened fire through the front windshield and through the side of the car, hitting the aggressive truck driver in the torso, arm, and leg.

The 20-year-old driver used to be a security guard, had handcuffs on him, detained the truck driver, and called police, authorities told KHOU.

Police told the station the 20-year-old was fully cooperating with investigators. The alleged aggressive truck driver was taken to a hospital, where he's expected to survive, KHOU noted.

"He's our victim, but again, more of a suspect, really," Lt. R. Willkens told the station. "Kind of a self-defense thing."

Police told KHOU no charges have been filed against the 20-year-old — and that he and his pregnant passenger were not hurt in the incident.

The station said it's unclear whether the truck driver will face charges.

You can view a video report here about the incident.

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Horrifying viral video shows male body-slamming woman headfirst on road after fender bender; suspect released on $2,500 bail



A horrifying viral video shows male body-slamming a woman headfirst on a Massachusetts road last week after a fender bender.

The incident occurred at the intersection of Route 1 and Route 1A just before 9 a.m. in Attleboro after the victim hit the male's vehicle from behind, WBZ-TV reported. Attleboro is just shy of an hour southwest of Boston and near the Rhode Island border.

'I called my friend, and I started crying, and I said "I can't feel my knees, I can't feel my knees." I needed her to go get my kids, so she had to go pick up my children, and all I could think was I'm probably never going to be able to walk again.'

“He kept slamming on his brakes, and then when we got to the intersection, we hit a light, and he was in front of me," Hailea Soares told WHDH-TV. "As soon as we went through, we didn’t even make it across, and he slammed on his brakes, so I hit him."

A witness told police the male — identified as 26-year-old Gladior Kwesiah of Pawtucket, Rhode Island — banged on the roof of Soares' car and pulled her out of her vehicle, WBZ said.

That account appears to conflict with WHDH's report, which notes that Soares said she exited her car to take video of the damage, but Kwesiah took her phone. However, WCVB-TV reported that Soares recorded the moment her attacker came for her in her car.

The witness from WBZ's report said Kwesiah and Soares were arguing, and when she told him to leave her alone, Kwesiah allegedly picked up Soares and body-slammed her to the ground. A witness recorded video of the incident, WBZ added.

A video report from WJAR-TV shows the body slam; viewer discretion is advised.

'I might die right now'

"The only thing that I could think of was I knew I was in the air, and by the time I was realizing I was in the air and I thought to myself, like, 'I might die right now,' I had already hit the ground. And I didn't realize that I had hit the ground," Soares told WBZ. "It was like a weird sensation I felt on my face, and that's when I realized I was on the ground, and I rolled over, and there was blood dripping all over my hands."

Soares — a mother of two who stands five feet tall and weighs 110 pounds — told WCVB she was body-slammed twice. She told WHDH that after the second body slam, she wasn't able to get back up.

Police told WBZ they found Soares crying and bleeding from her head on the road, after which she was hospitalized with a broken knee, broken foot, an injury to her eye socket, and a serious injury to her skull.

'I don't know if he was having a bad day, I don't know what that was, but if that's the type of person he is, then I don't think he belongs in society with the rest of us.'

Soares was released from the hospital Friday, WBZ said, adding that she feared the worst: "I called my friend, and I started crying, and I said 'I can't feel my knees, I can't feel my knees.' I needed her to go get my kids, so she had to go pick up my children, and all I could think was I'm probably never going to be able to walk again."

A GoFundMe page has been set up to support Soares’ recovery, WHDH said.

Standing over her

Police told WCVB that Kwesiah was standing over Soares when they arrived to arrest him.

Kwesiah was taken to the Attleboro Police Department, where he was booked and charged with assault and battery by means of a dangerous weapon with serious injury resulting, malicious destruction of property, and operating without a license, WHDH reported.

“Inappropriate and unacceptable conduct stemming from what was essentially a minor motor vehicle crash,” Attleboro Police Sergeant Kevin Sellers added to WHDH.

Kwesiah was arraigned Friday in Attleboro District Court, WBZ said, adding that the court set bail in the amount of $2,500 cash along with a condition that Kwesiah has no contact with the victim. Attleboro Police on Tuesday morning confirmed to Blaze News that the suspect was released on $2,500 bail.

"I don't know if he was having a bad day, I don't know what that was, but if that's the type of person he is, then I don't think he belongs in society with the rest of us," Soares noted to WBZ.

You can view WBZ's video report here.

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Concealed-carrying motorist shoots male who approaches him allegedly with hand under shirt during road rage incident



A concealed-carrying motorist opened fire at a male who approached him allegedly with his hand under his shirt during a road rage incident in Illinois over the weekend.

Urbana Police said they responded at 4:30 p.m. Saturday to the intersection of Busey Avenue and Park Street.

The female driver was armed with a baseball bat, police said, adding that her male passenger approached the lone male driver.

Police said a male and female in one car got into a verbal dispute with a male driving alone in another car.

The lone male drove past the male and female, police said, adding that the male and female followed the lone male.

The lone male pulled into a hospital emergency room parking lot and then exited on Park Street in order to create distance between himself and the male and female following him, police said.

The car occupied by the male and female continued west on University Avenue, turned north on Busey Avenue, and stopped at Park Street, police said, adding that they exited their vehicle as the lone male reached the intersection.

The female driver was armed with a baseball bat, police said, adding that her male passenger approached the lone male driver.

Police said the lone male driver indicated that the other male had his hand underneath his shirt as if he were carrying a weapon.

Police said the lone male driver — a concealed-carry permit holder — from his vehicle drew a legally concealed gun and fired several rounds striking the other male.

Police said the lone male called 911 to report the incident.

The wounded male was transported to a local hospital where he underwent surgery and was in intensive care, police said.

Police said the incident is under investigation, and no arrests had been made.

Police added that those with information about the case can call 217-384-2320 and make arrangements if they wish to discuss the information privately. Those wishing to remain anonymous can submit tips to Crime Stoppers by phone at 217-373-TIPS, online at 373tips.com, or through the "P3 Tips" mobile app.

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Boston woman killed in road rage attack, devastated mother hopes driver 'burns directly in hell!'



A 26-year-old Boston woman was allegedly killed in an intentional road rage attack, according to reports. The devastated mother of the slain woman hopes the alleged driver involved in the fatal incident "burns directly in hell!"

According to a preliminary investigation by the Middlesex County District Attorney's Office, Ryan Sweatt "became engaged in an apparent road rage incident with another vehicle" on Thursday night while driving on Route 85 in Hopkinton — a suburb of Boston.

At some point, the occupants of the other vehicle exited the car, including Destini Decoff. Authorities say that Sweatt "subsequently made a U-turn at a high rate of speed and struck the victim in the roadway" with his Honda Civic.

Witness Brett Martin told WBZ-TV, "He chose to turn around, chose to come back. He knew what he was doing when he went towards that girl."

"We could tell there was a little road rage going on," Martin alleged.

Martin said, "I saw her mid-air kind of coming down towards the street...her jacket must've been 20 feet away from her. However, she got hit, those clothes flew off."

The prosecutor said Sweatt slammed into Decoff, "knocking her several feet into the air."

Decoff was rushed to the hospital after experiencing injuries “head to toe,” according to her mother. She suffered a brain bleed; collapsed lungs; internal bleeding; and broken shoulders, ribs and tibia.

The New York Post reported, "After spending the night in surgery to remove a portion of her skull to relieve the pressure on her brain and cut out her spleen, Decoff was placed on a ventilator. She died without ever regaining consciousness."

Decoff succumbed to her injuries and died on Sunday.

Sweatt reportedly drove away but said he made the conscious decision to turn around.

However, a prosecutor told the court that a police officer witnessed Sweatt speeding away from the apparent crime scene.

According to Sweatt, the driver of the other vehicle slammed on the brakes while in front of him.

Sweatt, 36, claimed that the individuals in the other vehicle threatened to kill him, and one allegedly pulled a knife on him.

An officer claimed that when Sweatt was pulled over by police, he yelled, "They’re trying to kill me!"

Sweatt, of Milford, was charged with assault and battery with a dangerous weapon causing serious bodily injury, operating to endanger, and a marked lanes violation.

Before her daughter's death, Decoff's mother blasted the driver for the alleged road rage attack.

While her young daughter was on life support, Tracy Decoff wrote on Facebook, "With every ounce of my being I hope that mf burns directly in hell!"

After Destini died, the grieving mother wrote: "Today my biggest fear as a mother became my reality. My first born child & best friend is no longer with me."

Sweatt was jailed without bail.

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Dashcam footage shows horrifying moment angry motorist swings machete at motorbike rider in road-rage attack



Police arrested a Florida man on Monday after dashcam footage captured him assaulting a fellow motorist with a machete.

Miami Springs police arrested Luis Ruiz-Herrera on Monday over his alleged involvement in a "road rage incident" that was caught on video. The assault took place last Friday, Sept. 29.

Luis Ruiz-Herrera (Image source: YouTube screenshot)

It's not immediately clear what proceeded the incident, but the video shows Ruiz-Herrera attack a motorbike rider with a machete, according to police.

"Ruiz-Herrera exited his vehicle armed with a machete ... and approached the victim who was in traffic, on his motor scooter," Miami Springs police said in a statement.

"The victim was able to dismount his motor scooter in time and retreat backwards as Ruiz-Herrera closed the gap between them. Ruiz-Herrera swung the machete at the victim making contact with the left side of his face," police explained. "Ruiz-Herrera fled the scene immediately after."

Despite the victim dodging the machete, police said the tip of the weapon made contact with his face, causing minor injuries.

Thanks to the driver whose dashcam captured the shocking assault, Miami Springs police quickly identified Ruiz-Herrera and took him into custody.

Upon his arrest, Ruiz-Herrera allegedly told police the victim "verbally disrespected his mother," WFOR-TV reported. Still, Ruiz-Herrera was remorseful, law enforcement said.

Ruiz-Herrera was charged with aggravated battery with a deadly weapon. In Florida, the crime is a second-degree felony, punishable by a maximum of 15 years in prison. A judge set his bond at $10,000.

At the end of the day, Miami Springs Police Chief Armando Guzman is thankful the incident did result in something worse.

"It could have cut [the victim's] head off. It could have at least cut an artery, and he would have bled off really fast," Guzman told WPLG-TV. "With all the years I've been doing this, it's got to the point where nothing really surprises me anymore. But when you see it live like that, it's real, it's happening."

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Video shows road rage suspect allegedly fire 12 shots with toddler in car, hit driver and critically injure innocent bystander: 'He was trying to kill me'



An apparent road rage incident in Georgia turned dangerous when a driver allegedly unleashed a barrage of gunfire while he had an infant in his vehicle.

Michael Gabriel was driving to a doctor's appointment on Wednesday morning when another driver allegedly brake-checked him for possibly tailgating. Gabriel said the driver in front of him slammed on his brakes so hard that he was forced to swerve into the outside lane to avoid a collision.

Gabriel then pulled up next to the Ford Mustang on Ga. 365.

"He didn’t like getting flipped off," Gabriel told The Times of Gainesville, Georgia.

The driver brake-checked Gabriel again. Then the Mustang driver got behind Gabriel and allegedly fired off three gunshots.

"He’s a little bit behind me, kind of diagonally," Gabriel explained. "So I look back and that’s when I saw his window coming down, the gun coming out. Pow! Pow! Pow!"

A bullet pierced his back window, traveled through his car seat, and tore into his right shoulder.

Gabriel told WSB-TV, "There wasn’t a warning shot. He was trying to kill me."

Gabriel pulled out his smartphone to take a video and capture the license plate number on the Mustang. However, when he got near the Mustang, he dropped his phone as nine more gunshots rang out. The alleged gunman got out of his car and reportedly fired on Gabriel's SUV.

During the second shooting, a bullet struck Gabriel in the lower back.

“Had that back shot had any more power, or if the trajectory had been any different, if that seat hadn’t — if it wasn’t built exactly like it was, that could have took out a lot of my organs,” Gabriel said. “It could have been game over.”

Gabriel called the police. He was rushed to the hospital and released later that day.

"It took a serious hand to God to keep me alive and here today,” Gabriel said.

However, a 65-year-old innocent bystander was not so lucky. Paula Kay Blackwell was “caught in the crossfire,” according to Lt. Kevin Holbrook of the Gainesville Police Department. Blackwell was shot in the kidney and was in critical condition as of Thursday, police said.

Video shows Gabriel's Chevrolet Tahoe riddled with bullet holes.

Gainesville police arrested 26-year-old Steven Dallas Cooper. He was charged with aggravated battery, criminal attempt to commit murder, criminal damage to property, reckless conduct, and aggravated assault. Cooper is being held without bond in Hall County Jail.

Cooper had a 2-year-old child in the backseat of the car during the alleged shooting, according to police.

Gabriel's advice for future road rage situations, "It’s so not worth this. If someone makes you mad, wave at them and say a prayer for them.”

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2 'stupid grown men' shoot each other's daughters in 'crazy' Florida road-rage incident: Police
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2 'stupid grown men' shoot each other's daughters in 'crazy' Florida road-rage incident: Police



Two men in Florida have been charged with felony attempted murder after a road-rage incident turned violent.

Last Saturday evening, William Joseph Hale, 35, and Frank Gilliard Allison, 43, were both driving northbound along Highway 1 just outside Jacksonville, families in tow, when they began to engage in what one witness described as "a cat and mouse game" of one-upmanship. Police said that Hale, who drove a black Dodge truck, and Allison, who drove a Nissan Murano, began "speeding and driving recklessly," occasionally "brake checking" one another and otherwise operating their vehicles in a way that endangered themselves and others.

At some point during the "game," Hale in the truck began to signal to the Nissan to pull over, witnesses said. In response, Jessica Allison, wife of Frank, reportedly rolled down the passenger window of the Nissan to give the truck the middle finger, at which point, someone in the truck allegedly seized the opportunity and threw a water bottle at or into the Nissan.

That's when the situation really escalated, reports suggest.

Frank Allison then "grabbed his Sig Saur 45-caliber automatic handgun and fired one shot at the other truck before driving away at a high rate of speed," said Nassau County Sheriff Bill Leeper. The shot entered one of the rear doors of the truck and reportedly struck Hale's 5-year-old daughter in the leg.

Once Hale realized that his daughter had been shot, he allegedly returned fire, shooting "everything that was in the magazine" of his Glock 43 9mm semi-automatic handgun, approximately "seven or eight rounds," police said he admitted. Police said that at least three of those rounds hit the Nissan, and one of them struck Allison's 14-year-old daughter in the back, causing a collapsed lung.

The drivers then reportedly spotted a police cruiser, pulled over, and began fighting one another, and deputies had to separate them before eventually placing them both under arrest. Both wives had also reportedly spoken to 911 operators during the incident. At least one but likely both girls were treated at UF Health Downtown hospital for injuries that were not considered life-threatening.

"What’s scarier than one crazy driver with a gun? Two crazy drivers with a gun," Leeper quipped.

"Thankfully, no one was killed in this incident," he continued, "but it could have very easily turned out that way because two people were acting stupid and let their tempers get the best of them.

"There could have been two dead kids because of two stupid grown men."

Both men were booked into Nassau County Jail on second-degree attempted murder and released on $150,000 bond. Police believe that the two men and their families did not know one another prior to the incident.


Shocking dashcam video shows driver opening fire on passing vehicle in Miami road rage incident



Shocking footage from a vehicle's dash camera shows a driver pulling a handgun from his center console before firing nearly a dozen shots at a passing vehicle while traveling on a major highway.

The apparent road rage incident took place last summer in Miami-Dade County, Florida, WTVJ-TV reported on Friday. But video of the incident has only just surfaced in media reports after being released to police by the defendant as part of the investigation.

The video was reportedly first obtained by Miami-based radio host Andy Slater.

According to police reports filed at the time of the incident, 30-year-old Eric Popper of Deerfield Beach was traveling southbound on I-95 early in the morning on June 21, 2021, when he changed lanes and abruptly cut off another driver.

Then, after the other driver honked his horn, Popper allegedly shouted, "Oh, f*** off" and aggressively applied his brakes.

"The victim tailgated the defendant for a short time and made hand gestures out of his driver’s window. In the video, the defendant is seen retrieving a handgun from his center console and pointing it towards his driver’s door," the police report read, according to WFOR-TV.

"When the defendant begins to pass the victim on the right, the defendant points the handgun towards his right-front passenger door. As the victim passes the defendant, he throws and strikes the victim’s vehicle with an unknown object," the report added.

Popper is then seen firing eleven shots at the passing vehicle, striking it multiple times.

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Popper has claimed that he was acting in self-defense. In another dashcam video, he can be heard saying, "I was just shot at. My car was hit," adding, "I returned fire back at the individual."

But the victim reportedly claimed that he did not have a gun but rather threw a water bottle at Popper's vehicle. Amazingly, neither of the drivers was injured in the exchange. Both called police to report the incident after it occurred.

Popper voluntarily turned himself in to the Florida Highway Patrol in July but has since bonded out of custody, WLPG-TV reported. He is reportedly facing several felony charges, including aggressive assault with a firearm and shooting/throwing a deadly missile.

At the time of the incident, Popper worked as a civilian fire inspector with Miami Beach. He has since resigned from his position.

Popper's lawyer, Robert Gershman, confirmed the video to WTVJ and told the outlet he believes the footage exonerates his client.

"You hear a bang on Mr. Popper's car, akin to a gunshot, which precipitated the whole incident, so in this matter, the audio and video evidence we believe exonerates him," Gershman said.

Shocking photo shows man shooting women over road rage incident while holding baby



Shocking photos show the moment a man erupted in a road rage shooting in Ohio. The man was enraged over a minor car crash, which reportedly did not include damage to the vehicles and he was not actually involved in. Inconceivable images show the man fire gunshots at women in the nearby car while he was holding a baby with his other hand.

There was a "minor, non-damage" car accident involving two female drivers, according to the Cincinnati Police Department. One of the drivers allegedly told the other, "I'm gonna go get my man, you better go get yours."

Approximately 30 minutes later, one of the drivers returned with Ladon Penn.

"Penn walked out of his car, walked into a home, and reappeared with a gun," the Cincinnati Police Department statement read. "Mr. Penn then start[ed] firing shots at the victim [the 54-year-old woman] and two other women with her. One round ricocheted and grazed the victim."

The 54-year-old woman suffered a "minor gunshot wound to her forearm." Police said, "She was treated and released at the scene."

Penn and the second woman fled from the crime scene. Police officers apprehended the couple about two miles from the location of the car accident. Officers recovered a 9mm handgun they believe was used in the shooting.

Penn, 31, was charged with three counts of felonious assault, child endangerment, and weapons under disability. Police didn't mention if the female acquaintance of Penn will face any charges.

Authorities obtained video of the shooting, and shared unbelievable screenshots that show Penn firing the gun while holding a small baby.

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