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Road Raging Teen Pulls Starter Pistol on I-95 Driver & 2-Year-Old Daughter: Police

An angry teenager fired a blank shot at a man driving along Interstate 95 Monday night and not even the victim’s 2-year-old daughter being in the car stopped the rage, said Pennsylvania State Police.

State police put out a bulletin after the incident around 9 p.m. Monday along the southbound lanes of I-95 near Exit 40 in Bristol Township, Bucks County.

Philadelphia police later spotted a suspect matching the description of 18-year-old William Henderson of Philadelphia driving a silver 1999 Mercury Grand Marquis believed to be used in the incident in Northeast Philadelphia, state police said in a affidavit of probable cause.

It turned out that the gun state police said Henderson used in the road rage incident was actually a starter pistol with blank rounds.

Henderson told police that he fired the pistol at the 30-year-old man's car because he believed the man had cut him off.

The Northeast Philadelphia man told police he accidentally cut off Henderson's car while merging onto I-95 south from Route 413. Henderson then pulled up beside the man's car and fired a single shot out of the passenger window, according to the affidavit.

"He said that he immediately slowed down because he thought that he had been shot," reads the affidavit.

The 30-year-old driver and his young daughter weren’t hurt, said police.

A judge arraigned Henderson overnight on reckless endangerment, simple assault, harassment and weapons charges and sent Henderson to county jail after the teen was unable to post 10 percent of $10,000 bail, according to court records.

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