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NEPHI — An apparent road rage incident that culminated with shots fired resulted in one man being arrested Sunday night.
Max Craig Judd, 21, of Provo, was booked into the Juab County Jail and charged Monday in 4th District Court with four counts of aggravated assault, a third-degree felony.
On Sunday, an Utah Highway Patrol trooper was notified about 9:30 p.m. of an incident on I-15 south of Nephi. A woman called 911 stating that a Ford truck was behind her "and had turned on a light bar that was on top of its vehicle and had begun tailgating the reporting party, passing and brake-checking her, flipping her off and recording her," according to a police booking affidavit.
The trooper then called the woman directly on her cellphone. After exiting the freeway at Nephi and pulling onto a dirt road, the woman "began to scream on the phone, yelling 'He has a gun and is walking towards my vehicle,'" the affidavit states.
The trooper arrived at the scene a short time later and called Judd and a woman out of the truck at gunpoint, according to the affidavit. Deputies checking the truck found "a handgun in the glove box with the hammer back."
The trooper then went back to his cellphone where the woman, who had driven away, was still on the line.
"The reporting party said that the suspect got out of his car brandishing a gun and fired it at her multiple times. She said that she quickly drove away and was now at the gas station in Mona. While talking to her on the phone, I walked back to the suspect's vehicle to find four handgun casings on the dirt road next to the suspect vehicle," the trooper wrote in the affidavit.
Another deputy responded to the gas station where the woman and three children were found.
"The reporting party and all occupants of the vehicle were not injured but were visibly shaken up over the incident, there were no signs or evidence of the bullet holes in the vehicle hitting the vehicle," according to the affidavit.
