OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) – Oklahoma City police said a driver was arrested last week in an alleged road rage case involving a gun, although he said he never fired it.
The incident happened on June 4, with officers responding to reports of a red pickup truck heading south on Broadway Extension and pointing a gun at another vehicle.
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Documents say witnesses followed the truck until officers showed up, stopping the driver on the ramp leading to Southeast 15th Street from I-35.
Officers say when they made contact with driver James Way, he admitted to being involved in a road rage incident. Way told officers he was stopped and brakes checked by the driver of a black SUV.
An affidavit says Way told officers, “I may have stuck my gun out the window, but I didn’t shoot anyone.”
When searching his truck, the affidavit says officers found a black pistol, which he claimed was his, with live ammunition. It does not document that one bullet was missing from the seven-round magazine.
“It is unclear at this time whether this firearm does not appear to have been fired at that time,” said Sergeant Dillon Quirk of the Oklahoma City Police Department.
Oklahoma City police say no one was injured, but whether or not the gun was fired doesn’t matter when it comes to the cause of Way’s arrest.
“Anytime you use a firearm to point at another person with the intent to threaten or intimidate, it is still against the law,” Quirk said.
Way is being held in the Oklahoma County Jail on $15,000 bail.
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