A 64-year-old man has been detained after allegedly firing a gun at one other driver’s automotive throughout a road-rage encounter on the outbound Dan Ryan Expressway.
Ronald Willis was arrested after investigators recognized his automobile because the one seen following the sufferer’s automobile round 5:11 a.m. on September 29 close to thirty first Road, in response to a detention petition.
Illinois State Police troopers responded to studies of gunfire on the outbound Dan Ryan that morning and met with a 26-year-old man who stated he heard two gunshots earlier than one thing struck the again of his Chevrolet Malibu. He informed police {that a} crimson SUV then pulled alongside his automotive, its driver honking the horn and waving wildly earlier than firing once more from the passenger facet. One bullet hit the Malibu’s proper rear taillight, in response to prosecutors.
The sufferer adopted the SUV whereas calling 911, however dispatchers instructed him to cease pursuing the automobile, in response to a police report. He pulled over close to 57th Road and waited for the police to reach.
Investigators used license plate reader knowledge to establish Willis’s crimson SUV as being straight behind the sufferer’s automotive earlier than the capturing. Troopers arrested Willis throughout a visitors cease close to his house.
Willis allegedly admitted to firing the gun on the expressway, telling police that the opposite driver had minimize him off a number of occasions and that he fired two photographs into the air as a result of he feared for his life. He stated he then pulled alongside the automotive and fired one other spherical upward to “scare” the opposite driver, however having no intention to kill him, in response to the report.
Police allegedly recovered the firearm from Willis’s house throughout a court-authorized search. Choose Ankur Srivastava ordered Willis detained on a cost of aggravated discharge of a firearm towards an occupied automobile.
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