A 22-year-old man was arrested Tuesday after he fired a handgun in the air during a road rage incident near downtown Dalton, police said.
Dalton is located just off Interstate 75 in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains in northwest Georgia.
Police said Gabriel Campos, of Kirk Drive in Calhoun, was driving northbound shortly after 5:30 p.m., when another driver began to tailgate him. Campos apparently became agitated and slowed down on South Thornton Avenue, near the 900 block in the area of the BB&T bank, police said.
Only the drivers know who “flipped the bird” first, police said, but Campos was the one who whipped out a weapon. He reportedly displayed a chrome and black .380 handgun to the other driver, police said.
Campos then fired a shot into the air, police said. The other driver called 911.
Officers responding stopped Campos at Morris Innovative High School at Fort Hill and performed a felony traffic stop, where Campos was arrested and charged with assault, aggressive driving, driving with a suspended license, reckless conduct and discharging a weapon on a public street.
This incident is still being investigated. Anyone who witnessed this incident today is asked to please contact Officer Jason Robinson at 706-278-9085, dial 9, and enter extension 180.
This is the second road rage incident reported with weapons fired in less than a week. Kennesaw police arrested on Thursday two men who returned to a home two days after a road rage incident and shot up a driver's house.
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