Mary Alice Reporting –
Charges are pending for three teenagers following an incident involving road rage and then a physical assault.
Tuscarawas County Sheriff’s Office Detective Captain Adam Fisher explains that on Friday, the office was contacted by Cleveland Clinic Union Hospital after a 53-year-old sought treatment in the emergency room.
Fisher says the victim described a road rage incident prior to the assault, which started on W. High Avenue when he was “cut off” by a white Chevrolet pickup truck. The victim did flash his vehicles headlights and blew the horn, and the combination of actions escalated the situation when the pickup truck followed the victim.
“The altercation started as a verbal altercation and quickly escalated to a physical altercation where our victim was assaulted by what he believed to be three different males in the same vehicle.”
The victim suffered serious injuries to his face and has undergone at least two surgeries.
Over the weekend, the Sheriff’s Office posted on social media a description of the involved pickup truck and were seeking help from the public to identify a possible owner or location.
On Monday, a road patrol sergeant observed a vehicle matching the description. Captain Fisher says that the owner was contacted, and it was determined that the 19-year-old son had been driving at the time of the incident. An additional interview was conducted.
“We were able to learn the identities of the associates on that night of the assault, both 18-years-old. Additional interviews were ultimately completed with those individuals and they all confessed to their involvement in the road rage incident and the assualt.”
Appropriate charges are pending for all three from the Tuscarawas County prosecutor’s office, and if charged, all suspects would be tried as adults.
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