Man Accused Of Attacking Black Driver, Threatening Mass Shooting

LARGO, FL — A Riverview man has been accused of attacking another man because of his race and then threatening a mass shooting during a road rage incident in Largo.

The Pinellas County Sheriff's Office arrested Jordan Patrick Leahy, 28, Sunday after being accused of attacking another driver in what the sheriff's office is calling a hate crime.

According to deputies, Leahy sideswiped a vehicle driven by a Black man, gave him a Nazi salute and then made a shooting motion toward the man with his finger.

The sheriff's office said Leahy then stopped his vehicle at the intersection of Bryan Dairy Road and Starkey Road, got out and approached the Black man vehicle aggressively. Deputies said he then punched the Black man before the man subdued him with a submission hold.

When deputies arrived, Leahy told them he "wanted to fight a random colored person" and told deputies to get Black people under control, calling them “savage animals." Deputies said he also yelled racial slurs at the victim and a witness.

Deputies said Leahy was intoxicated at the time.

After being taken into custody, Leahy told deputies he wanted to shoot 60 to 70 people in the face and then kill himself by a gunshot to the neck, saying it would be “the most fulfilling thing he would experience in life."

He told deputies that people would be surprised at how easy it would be for him to commit a mass shooting.

Leahy has been charged with DUI involving property damage, threatening to commit a mass shooting and felony battery. Bail was set at $20,000.

Leahy was released from state prison in April after being convicted in 2019 of aggravated stalking.