Bizarre Helena road rage case leaves 1 man beaten, another stabbed

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60S. SO SHOW YOU HOW THAT PANS OUT COMING UP IN. ALL RIGHT. SO A BIZARRE CASE OF ROAD RAGE INVOLVING A GOLF CART OUT IN HELENA. AND THIS ALL CAME TO A VIOLENT END AND NOW IT APPEARS CHARGES COULD BE FILED. AND I WANT TO GET OUT TO WVTM 1313 LISA CRANE. SHE JOINS US LIVE IN HELENA TONIGHT. WALK US THROUGH WHAT WE KNOW, LISA, HAPPENED HERE. YEAH, POLICE SAY THIS STARTED IN BESSEMER. APPARENTLY A WOMAN GOT UPSET WITH A FAMILY IN A SEDAN FOR NOT USING A TURN SIGNAL THAT FAMILY WAS A DOORDASH DELIVERY DRIVER WHO HAD HIS WIFE AND INFANT CHILD IN THE CAR WITH HIM. NOW, THE INCIDENT CONTINUED HERE INTO OLENINA, RIGHT IN THIS AREA WHERE IT ESCALATED. HELENA POLICE CHIEF BRAD FLYNN DESCRIBES WHAT HAPPENED WITH DISBELIEF. HE SAYS A WOMAN AGGRESSIVELY FOLLOWED A FAMILY DOWN SOUTH SHADES CREST ROAD ONTO LONGLEAF LAKE DRIVE. SHE WAS CURSING AND POINTING A GUN. THAT’S WHEN THEY SAY A MAN SHE KNOWS SHOWED UP ON A GOLF CART, TAKING HER GUN, POINTING IT AT THE FAMILY AGAIN WHEN THE FAMILY’S CAR SLOWED DOWN BECAUSE OF ENGINE TROUBLE. THEY SAY THE MAN ON THE CART ATTACKED THE OTHER DRIVER. APPARENTLY, THE BACK PASSAGE, OUR WINDOW ON THE DRIVER’S SIDE WAS DOWN. AND AT THAT POINT, THE MALE SUBJECT ENTERED THE VEHICLE, REACHED INTO THE VEHICLE AND BEGAN TO ASSAULT THE DRIVER WITH HIS FIST HITTING HIM SEVERAL TIMES ABOUT THE FACE AND THE HEAD AND EVEN RIPPING HIS SHIRT COMPLETELY OFF OF HIM. THE FEMALE, HIS PASSENGER BEGAN SCREAMING AT THE MALE STOP HITTING MY HUSBAND, STOP HITTING HIM. AND AT THAT POINT, SHE PRODUCED A SMALL POCKET KNIFE AND BEGAN TO STAB THE INDIVIDUAL SEVERAL TIMES IN THE ARM AND IN DEFENSE OF HER HUSBAND. THE CHIEF SAYS IT WORKED. THE MAN LET GO AND WALKED TO THIS FIRE DEPARTMENT WITH AT LEAST THREE STAB WOUNDS. YOU CAN STILL SEE THE TRAIL OF BLOOD ON THE ROAD. IT’S A CASE THAT HAS EVEN THIS VETERAN POLICE CHIEF DUMBFOUNDED. IT’S TERRIBLE ENOUGH TO HAVE ROAD RAGE OVER A TRIVIAL MATTER. BUT TO HAVE A WEAPON PRODUCED AND THEN IN THE AT THE END OF IT, SOMEONE ACTUALLY BEING STABBED. I’VE NEVER EVEN HEARD OF ANYTHING REMOTELY CLOSE TO THIS HAPPENING. THE CHIEF SAYS THEY HAVE TURNED ALL THEIR INFORMATION OVER TO THE JEFFERSON COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY’S OFFICE AND THAT HE EXPECTS CHARGES TO B

Jefferson County district attorney will decide whether to file charges in the case

A bizarre case of road rage involving a golf cart in Helena. It ended in bloodshed, and now it appears charges could be filed. Police say it started near Bessemer. Apparently, a woman got upset with a family in a sedan for not using a turn signal. That family was a DoorDash delivery person with his wife and infant child with him. It continued into Helena, where it escalated. Helena police Chief Brad Flynn described what happened with disbelief. He says a woman aggressively followed a family down South Shades Crest Road onto Long Leaf Lake Drive. He said she was cursing and pointing a gun. That's when a man she knows showed up on a golf cart. They say he took her gun and pointed it at the family. When the family's car slowed down because of engine trouble, the chief says the man on the cart attacked the other driver. Chief Flynn said, “Apparently, the back passenger window on the driver's side was down at that point that the male subject entered the vehicle, reached into the vehicle and began to assault the driver with his fist, hitting him several times about the face and the head and even ripping his shirt completely off of him.” He went on to say, “The female, his passenger, began screaming at the male, stop hitting my husband, stop hitting him. And at that point, she produced a small pocketknife and began to stab the individual several times in the arm and in defense of her husband.” The chief says it worked. The man let go and walked to a nearby fire department with at least three stab wounds. You can still see the trail of blood on the road. It's a case that has even this veteran police chief dumbfounded. Chief Flynn said, “It's terrible enough to have road rage over a trivial matter, but to have a weapon produced. And then, at the end of it, someone actually being stabbed. I've never even heard of anything remotely close to this happening.” The chief says they've turned the information over to the Jefferson County District Attorney’s Office and expect charges to be filed soon.

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When the family's car slowed down because of engine trouble, the chief says the man on the cart attacked the other driver. Chief Flynn said, “Apparently, the back passenger window on the driver's side was down at that point that the male subject entered the vehicle, reached into the vehicle and began to assault the driver with his fist, hitting him several times about the face and the head and even ripping his shirt completely off of him.” He went on to say, “The female, his passenger, began screaming at the male, stop hitting my husband, stop hitting him. And at that point, she produced a small pocketknife and began to stab the individual several times in the arm and in defense of her husband.”

The chief says it worked. The man let go and walked to a nearby fire department with at least three stab wounds. You can still see the trail of blood on the road. It's a case that has even this veteran police chief dumbfounded. Chief Flynn said, “It's terrible enough to have road rage over a trivial matter, but to have a weapon produced. And then, at the end of it, someone actually being stabbed. I've never even heard of anything remotely close to this happening.” The chief says they've turned the information over to the Jefferson County District Attorney’s Office and expect charges to be filed soon.

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