Man Pulls Gun During Tirade At Manchester Gas Station: Cops

MANCHESTER, CT — A man who pointed a gun at a gas station patron in Manchester over the weekend was arrested Monday, police said.

Early Sunday morning, officers responded to the Fuel + gas station at 220 Spruce Street for a reported road rage incident. W woman told police that, while she was attempting the enter the parking lot of the station, a dark gray Hyundai Elantra was partially blocking the entrance.

The woman said She honked her horn and the driver began waving his arms at her, according to an incident report.

The woman eventually drove into the lot and went into the store, according to an incident report. She told police the man was waiting for her as she returned to her vehicle and, as she entered it to leave, the man approached the car and pointed a handgun at her, an incident report indicates.

She told the man she was calling the police, and he left in the Hyundai, heading north on Spruce Street, according to an incident report.

Surveillance video from the business revealed the man matched the physical description of the registered owner of the Hyundai, 29-year-old Tyler Witter of Middletown, according to an incident report. Witter has a valid Connecticut pistol permit, but no firearms are registered to him, according to an incident report.

In the surveillance video, Witter is clearly pointing a gun outside the gas station's convenience store, police said.

Attempts to locate Witter and the vehicle were unsuccessful Sunday and a warrant for his arrest was secured later that day, police said. On Monday, a Yale Police Department officer located the vehicle, stopped it, and arrested Witter on the Manchester warrant, authorities said.

Witter also had an active re-arrest warrant out of Middletown.

For the Manchester incident, he was charged with:

• First-degree threatening with a firearm
• Second-degree breach of peace
• First-degree reckless endangerment
• Second-degree intimidation based on bias/bigotry

Witter was being held Tuesday on a $75,000 bond on the Manchester charges and an additional $150 bond for a failure to appear charge out of out of Middletown.

Witter is scheduled to appear in Manchester Superior court on Wednesday.