Crime & Safety
Man Threatens to Shoot Driver in Road Rage Incident
The following information was provided by the Twinsburg Police Department. It does not indicate a conviction
Twinsburg Police were called to a case of road rage when a driver said a man threatened to shoot him on Aug. 23.
According to the police report, Matthew Lang, 27, of Streetsboro, was charged with aggravated menacing and inducing panic.
The victim told police a car had been tailgating him and when they were stopped at the intersection of Darrow Road and Glenwood Drive, he told the man behind him to "back off." The driver of the following car then threatened to shoot him. While the man said he didn't see a gun, he drove away and called police.
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Officers stopped Lang's car on Darrow Road and Lang's brother said there was no gun in the car, which was confirmed, and that Lang did make the threat to shoot the other driver.
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