Crime & Safety
Driver Pulls Gun in Road Rage Incident on Solon's US 422
Marquise Dudley pulled a handgun on another driver after they flashed their lights at him.
SOLON, OH - Be careful who you flash your lights at while driving. A 43-year-old Lyndhurst man learned that the hard way on Nov. 11 when he tried to coax the car in front of him out of the fast lane on US 422 and the other driver responded by flashing a handgun.
The Lyndhurst man was cruising down 422 at about 9 p.m. when he got stuck behind a slow rolling car. Frustrated, he flashed his lights at the car. The car in front of him then slammed on its brakes and moved to the right lane.
When the Lyndhurst man passed the slow moving car, the driver pulled out a handgun and held it up in the driver side window. In an act of defiant bravery, the Lyndhurst man then slowed his car down, called police, and followed the other car to a Dunkin Donuts on SR 91.
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Officers arrived at the Dunkin Donuts, 6353 SOM Center Road and arrested Marquise Dudley, 21, of Clevleand, for Aggravated menacing. They also seized his handgun and put it into evidence.
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