Gun Owner Stops Road Rage Attack, Arrests Driver Who Ran Man Down

By Bob Owens

A Billing Heights man who was the passenger in a vehicle that cut off a panel van pulled his personal handgun and stopped a road-raging panel van driver at gunpoint after the van driver plowed over the driver of the pickup not once, but twice.

A road rage incident ended in Billings Heights Tuesday with the driver of a commercial truck running over another man twice after a confrontation. A passenger in the victim’s pickup then held the commercial driver at gunpoint until police arrived.

A man in a 2002 Ford F-150 had apparently cut off a 28-year-old Billings man driving a Chevrolet cargo truck on Wicks Lane at around 11:30 a.m. The commercial driver then chased the Ford driver west up Wicks Lane, said Sgt. Shane Winden, of Billings Police Department.

The panel truck followed the Ford onto Nottingham Circle, said Winden. The driver and an occupant of the Ford got out and approached the cargo truck. The driver of the cargo truck drove at them and struck one of the men, later identified as an 18-year-old Billings man. The panel truck driver then drove over the victim a second time.

The second occupant of the Ford was armed with a pistol …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms