World News | Drivers Shoot Daughters in Florida Road Rage Confrontation
Get latest articles and stories on World at LatestLY. Two men face attempted murder charges for allegedly firing into each other's vehicles on a busy Florida highway and wounding each other's daughters, who were passengers in their back seats.
Fernandina Beach (US), Oct 17 (AP) Two men face attempted murder charges for allegedly firing into each other's vehicles on a busy Florida highway and wounding each other's daughters, who were passengers in their back seats.
William Hale of Douglasville, Georgia, and Frank Allison of Callahan, Florida, were charged last week with attempted second-degree murder in the October 8 confrontation on US Highway 1 in Nassau County, which is in the Florida's northeasternmost corner.
A witness told Nassau County sheriff's deputies that both vehicles were being driven so erratically and engaging in a “cat and mouse" chase that he called the authorities out of concern, according to an incident report.
Hale, driving a truck with relatives as passengers, told deputies that he and Allison were “brake checking", or braking in front of each other repeatedly, during the confrontation.
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He said at some point, he heard a “pow" at his back door, so he grabbed a gun he kept in his centre console and fired out of the driver's window, according to the incident report.
“It was an instant reaction," Hale said, noting that he fired “everything that was in the clip," deputies reported.
Allison told deputies that he fired his gun at the truck's bed or tire after a water bottle was thrown into his car. Before the water bottle was thrown, his wife had been “flicking them off," he said.
“Mr. Allison said his goal of firing the shot was to get out of the whole situation," the deputies reported.
Hale's daughter suffered a wound to her upper calf, while Allison's daughter suffered a collapsed lung, according to the report.
There was no attorney listed for Hale in an online docket. An attorney for Allison didn't immediately respond to an emailed inquiry on Monday. (AP)
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