Dacula Man Says He Was Threatened With Gun During Road Rage Confrontation

A Dacula man said he was threatened with a gun after an angry motorist followed him to his Meridian Drive home on May 2.

The man, who was a passenger in the family's vehicle along with his two young sons, said his wife, the driver, passed a slow moving Nissan Quest on I-85. According to the man, the driver of the Nissan Quest then sped up and began flashing his high beams at them. The Quest driver then allegedly followed the family to their Dacula home. The man told his wife and children to stay in the car while he spoke with the other motorist.

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"[The man] said a white male with long hair and a beard got out of the vehicle and pointed a gun in his face," the officer wrote in the report. "[The man] said the two exchanged words and then the suspect pointed the gun at himself, placing the barrel of the gun underneath his chin."

The motorist then returned to his vehicle and began to drive away. At that point, the Dacula man yelled, "There's a phone number on the back of your vehicle and I got your tag number!" to which the motorist reportedly replied, "Good luck locating me!" The Dacula man said the vehicle also had the email address of a guitar repair company displayed on the window.

The investigating officer ran the tag number and obtained the address and phone number of the registered owner. The officer was able to make contact by phone with a woman who said her husband had been driving the vehicle and was not at home. The officer asked if her husband owned a gun and the woman reportedly said they had guns they kept with them when traveling back and forth to their business.

"I asked [the woman] what their business was and she stated that they owned a guitar shop," the officer wrote.

Once the officer explained the incident to the woman and emphasized the severity of the situation, the woman allegedly "began to get hostile" and started yelling. According to the police report, the woman said she would report the vehicle as stolen and that would "take care of the situation." 

"I advised [the woman] she needed to calm down and she continued to scream at me," the report stated. "At that time, I advised [the woman] that I was not going to listen to her scream at me and that I was hanging up."

As of the time of the report, the officer had not been able to reach the woman's husband.

The case is listed as active.

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