Police in Duluth, Georgia, arrest Josue Colon Matos after a road rage incident (WSB).
A road rage incident in Georgia resulted in a shooting when a suspect followed through on his threat to fire at the victim after a countdown.
The suspect, Josue Colon Matos, aged 30, has been charged with aggravated assault, possession of a firearm during a crime, and reckless driving, and is currently held in Gwinnett County Jail without bond.
According to a report by local ABC affiliate WSB, body camera footage and the arrest affidavit revealed details of the events on Dec. 23 in Duluth, approximately 30 miles northeast of Atlanta. Following a call about a shooting victim on Pleasant Hill Road around 8 p.m., officers from the Duluth Police Department found the victim with a gunshot wound to the left foot.
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“I can’t believe he shot me … He was tailgating me,” the victim said in the body camera video. “He kept bothering me, and I got upset.”
Paramedics took him to the hospital for treatment.
The victim later told cops that after the man started tailgating him, he pulled into a parking lot and the suspect, later identified as Matos, followed him in. The victim exited out of his car and walked up to the suspect’s car. Per the affidavit, Matos got out and both men started arguing, That when Matos allegedly pulled out a gun and told the victim he had “until the count of three” to leave him alone.
Matos counted to three and then shot the victim, according to cops. The suspect then drove away. Cops used traffic cameras to track him down and arrest him. His attorney gave a differing account than the police version of events.
“We anticipate the evidence will show the other driver was the primary aggressor and that Mr. Matos’ actions were in self-defense,” the attorney, Robert King, said.
Matos has a court hearing scheduled for Jan. 17.
