Road Rage Leads To Gun Shot On Braintree Highway, Police Say

This story was updated at 1:14 p.m.

BRAINTREE, MA — No arrests have been made yet in a road rage incident that could have turned deadly on a Braintree highway yesterday.

At approximately 2:50 p.m. on Wednesday, Massachusetts State Police patrols out of the Milton Barracks responded to a call for a car struck by a bullet on Route 93 South in Braintree.

"Preliminary investigation suggests that a potential road rage incident involving two vehicles (separate and unrelated to the victim’s vehicle) took place on the northbound side," officials said.

"An occupant of one of those other vehicles fired a round, which struck the vehicle on the southbound side. (The vehicle that was struck was not involved in the potential road rage incident on the northbound side.)"

The male operator of the southbound vehicle suffered an "extremely minor" injury and refused medical transport, officials said. In an update, officials later clarified that the man was injured "when the round that was fired struck the side of his Ford Explorer. The round did not penetrate the victim, who declined medical transport," officials said.

The investigation, including processing of the vehicle and interviews of witnesses, is active and is being conducted by State Police patrols, detectives, crime scene technicians and ballistics experts.

Traffic lanes were briefly closed to accommodate a search by troopers, but all lanes have since re-opened.