LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A person faces 19 prices after police stated he shot at a driver who allegedly “brake checked” him throughout a highway rage incident, paperwork stated.
On Tuesday, Nov. 26, at round 6:30 p.m., officers with the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Division responded to the realm of U.S. 95 and Durango Drive after experiences that two automobiles had been chasing one another.
The particular person reporting, who police later recognized because the sufferer, instructed officers that one other particular person shot at his automobile. The motive force stated he was following the suspect’s automobile, based on an arrest report.
Officers had been in a position to cease each automobiles. Officers then noticed a handgun “in plain view” within the sufferer’s automobile, the report said. Police additionally situated two impacts on the sufferer’s automobile.
The suspect, recognized as Deshawn Lee, 26, instructed police he was driving south on U.S. 95 between Craig Highway and West Charleston Boulevard within the HOV lane. He stated the sufferer was tailgating him and induced him to “drive up to 120 miles per hour,” based on the report.
He stated the sufferer sped up and started to “brake check” him, which means he intentionally hit his brakes in entrance of one other automobile.
Lee instructed police he was upset as a result of his younger nephews had been within the again seat, so he grabbed his firearm and shot roughly 12 occasions into the air as “warning shots.” He stated he believed the opposite automobile’s driver was “possibly pointing something black at him,” the report said.
Lee stated he then drove away to get away from the sufferer, who adopted him till they had been each stopped by legislation enforcement.
The sufferer instructed police he was driving his son to his pal’s home and was driving within the HOV lane. He stated he handed Lee’s automobile and stated Lee “tailgated them in anger of them passing” earlier than the sufferer heard gunshots, the report said.
The sufferer’s stepson instructed police that the sufferer was rushing within the HOV lane and after they handed Lee’s automobile, the sufferer, who the stepson described as a “hothead,” slammed on his breaks in entrance of Lee, the report said.
Throughout the taking pictures, the sufferer stated he pulled out his firearm however didn’t fireplace it. When Lee drove away, the sufferer “chased” after him, committing a number of visitors infractions, based on the report.
Police took Lee to the Clark County Detention Middle the place he was held on a $150,000 bail and faces the next prices:
Two counts of kid abuse or neglect
Three counts of assault with using a lethal weapon
14 counts of discharging a gun at/into an occupied construction/automobile
His subsequent courtroom look was scheduled for Dec. 17.
