Two women shot after drivers fireplace at one another in Florida street rage

Two youngsters had been shot after the lads driving the automobiles they had been in fired weapons at one another throughout a street rage incident on a Florida freeway, a sheriff mentioned this week.

The accidents to the youngsters, a 5-year-old woman shot within the leg and a 14-year-old woman shot within the again, weren’t life threatening, Nassau County Sheriff Invoice Leeper mentioned.

“There might have been two useless children due to two silly grown males,” Leeper mentioned at a information convention Monday.

William Hale, 35, of Douglas, Georgia, and Frank Allison, 43, of Callahan, Florida, have been charged with tried homicide, Leeper mentioned.

The taking pictures occurred round 6 p.m. Saturday on U.S. Route 1, north of Jacksonville, after aggressive strikes between the drivers that included “brake-checking” one another, Leeper mentioned.

Hale, driving a Dodge Ram, pulled up subsequent to Allison in a Nissan Murano, the entrance passenger of the Nissan gave the center finger to the Ram and somebody in that truck threw a water bottle into the Nissan by means of the open window, Leeper mentioned.

Allison allegedly pulled a Sig Sauer .45-caliber handgun and fired one shot, which went by means of the door and struck Hale’s 5-year-old daughter within the leg, in line with the sheriff and an arrest report.

Hale then allegedly pulled out a Glock 9mm handgun and fired seven or eight pictures, hanging the Nissan thrice. A kind of bullets hit a 14-year-old who was within the rear of the Nissan, in line with an arrest report. The woman was hit within the again and had a collapsed lung, Leeper mentioned.

Each males stopped their autos after they noticed a sheriff’s patrol automotive, obtained out and started arguing. A deputy broke up the combat and referred to as Nassau County Fireplace Rescue, which took the youngsters to a hospital for therapy, Leeper mentioned.

Allison and Hale have been launched from jail after posting bond, Leeper mentioned. Courtroom information present they face costs of tried second-degree homicide. Data don’t present that any pleas have been entered.

An lawyer listed as representing Allison didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark early Thursday. On-line court docket information didn’t present an lawyer for Hale.