On a rainy Monday morning, what began as a random encounter outside the Dollar General store escalated into a road rage incident involving gunfire and a dramatic standoff reminiscent of a Mike Tyson face. It's the phone. It's the phone. 214 stop. All right. All right. You stand over there. Stand over there. All right. You face away from me. He hit my car. All right. Cool. Stand right there. 214. I got one at North Point. They're both rubble right now. The other party's across the street. Yo, you face away from me. Put your hands up. You shut up. Delta 213 check. Who has the gun? US1 US1 PV grade. I got one at gunpoint. Bravo Mike with a white shirt. The other half's across the street. Black male dreads. Stay across the [ __ ] street. Bro, get off the air. Give me the air. 212. Secure that black male over there. Put your hands up. Secure him. Yo, walk back to the sound of my voice. Do it now. Walk back to the sound of my voice. Walk back to the sound of my voice. Keep your hands up. Go left. Keep walking to the left. Two steps to the left. Keep walking. I got hands. All right. Keep walking. Keep walking. Keep your hands up. You're going to get tased, bro. Keep walking. Don't worry about him. Listen to us. Nah. You [ __ ] up. [Applause] Nah. Come do it now. Come do it now. Come do it now. You don't have to fight me. Put your phone behind. I told you that that's my phone. I'm not fighting you. I'm not fighting you. Nobody's in the car. Don't get in the front seat. Nobody's in the car. I'm right by myself. You [ __ ] ho. Come on. Oh, you got louder when you put cuffs on me. You got louder when you put cuffs on me. You got louder when you put cuffs on me. You the straight up [ __ ] You the straight up [ __ ] You 214. I got one secured, two worthless in the car. Who else is in the car? Nobody in the car. Excuse me. All right. Any weapons in the vehicle? Yes. Yes, I have two weapons in the car. All right. What kind of guns are there? One's a fifth 500. The other one's a GO 40. All right. A GOT 10. Got two. 214. Police advising no one else is in the vehicle. He has two weapons inside there. All right. Uh, we're going to get you in the back of my car real quick. Okay. Can I get C? No. No. No. I'm not aggressive. I haven't been fighting. I've been doing that as all right. Never mind. Stand right here. You come break my arm. Shut up and face the car. You come break. Shut up and face the car. Thank you. I need someone to put I need to put him in somebody's car. We got multiple units coming. Can we have someone stop traffic? Get in. Close this unit. Stop northbound traffic US1. Anybody else in the car? Make yourself known. Do it now. Anybody else in the vehicle? Stick your hands out the window. Do it now. Still on firefight or is it okay to cancel? Okay. You were at the R section the other day, right? What's the R section? No, sir. You going to leave over here? No, sir. Okay. Step on out. Just going to search you real quick. Anything on you? No, sir. Okay. I'm sorry. All right. We want to figure out what's going on. Okay. That's fine. I got you. All right. I know. Sorry for all the screaming and yelling, but you know, someone's calling about someone's calling about guns and fights and stuff, so that kind of ups the antenny a little bit. You know what I mean? Yes, sir. All right. Anything on you? No, sir. Just spread your feet for me. Do you want to sit back down in the car? No, I'd rather stay. And can I can I be cuffed in the front? I'm not going nowhere. I'm not going to try to just for right now. Just our policy in the back. Okay. But is there any way I can just stay out here then? Cuz um for now, you want to talk on this side that we had a viewpoint of him. That's good. Cool. All right. So, she just read you your rights. You understood them as she read them to you and stuff. All right. So, what what is what is going on? All right. So, my wife, who I'm legally married to, she left me about 5 months ago, right? Couple of weeks ago, she called me and I had the text message on the phone. Couple weeks ago, she called me, said everything was going to be good between us. We're going to get back together. Uh, she was going to move in with me at the end of the month. Move back to our house at the end of the month in South Carolina. All right. And that was the end of January. So, then end of January come well actually maybe like a week before the end of the month, just stop talking. No text, no messages, nothing. Okay. So, I waited and waited and then today I was like, "Well, I haven't heard nothing from so I get there." At the house. I went to the house. Which house? Where is it? Okay. You get to the house. So, I get there. I see a car parked in the driveway, which I'm assuming it was his only because honestly, she didn't have a deal. Okay. So, then I didn't go to the car. I mean, I left. Right. He pulled up behind me uh at that light right before you turn left to go to the Dollar General. And here you like Woods. Yep. He blocked me in and then so I pulled into cuz I was planning on going there to get me something to drink. So I pulled into there. He pulls in. He pulls his car around and then he gets out, threatens me. I tried to go inside. He confronts me. So I didn't get back in my car. So I was just like, "Look, I'm not going to run from here." You know what I'm saying? Right. I I didn't I didn't do it. go to your house and do nothing. Okay. I didn't even say nothing to him. We didn't have conversation tonight. So anyway, so then we get into altercation and that's what my fit your ear. Yeah. So then when I leave, he was like, "Well," he said, "Well, we can go cuz somebody said, "Oh, we call the cops." He was like, "Well, we can just go talk to Eric." I said, "I bet." And so that means we're going So we're going back to your house. So he said, "Okay." So we go back. We drive to go back to his house. And then he started acting. So I was like, "Man, [ __ ] this." And then so I tried to leave, but he kept racing behind me. Did y'all see my lights and stuff or I didn't see you. Okay. Um and then so he raced behind me and then when we got up here, he hit the back of my car, which is when I opened fire. As you can see, the back of my car struck. Where did he hit it? Right there on the on the end. What? Left side. Right side. Back. Right side. No, he didn't have in his pockets. It's It's It's in my It's in my um jacket pocket. the in the court the inside court one Louiswis Shshire Okay so that's not that's not car but he he hit my car it my car stalled so I had to pull over and then tried to restart it he pulled up beside me I didn't know if he what he had on what we were going to do something to him I didn't know okay so what let's back up a little bit so when you got to Louis Shshire how did he know you were there I p so he was in the he was in the car in the driveway okay so he was in the driveway yeah he was in the I couldn't see inside the car. Okay. All I saw was the car. Did he see you drive by or did you get out of your car? I didn't get out the car. Okay. He just saw a random blue Luxes drive by. Yeah. He didn't know it was me cuz when he pulled up to the when I pulled up That's right. When we got to that light before you turned on what you call it, he got to light. I rolled my window down and he was like, "Oh, it's you." Okay. So, that's how he knew it was me. But he didn't before that he didn't know it. Okay. So, after So, after uh after that, you guys got to like Lake View. like you in Belair or Matanzis Woods. He pulled up on you, saw it was you, then he fought. You went to the Dollar General. Yeah. He Well, I didn't even get to go inside. He got out and he blocked my way. He blocked you. Yeah. So, so when he pulled up, I pulled up and then he pulls up and then like So, he's closer to the store. Okay. So, I was kind of nervous about where I was going to park anyway. So, I got out the car. I was going to go inside. He he pull he gets in front of me. So, he block he's between me and the entrance. Okay. So, at that point, what happened? So at that point it was it was fight or flight. Okay. Who approached you? He approached me. How did he do that? With his hands up. He approached you with his hands up. Frustrating. Yeah. [ __ ] ass [ __ ] This that and that. Come on. This you came to my house. Blah blah blah. Cuz he that's his house. I don't know. When he when he approached you, did he like sprint? Was he walking? No, he he sprint. No, he he wasn't he wasn't walking. He full sprinted towards you. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He was aggressive with his hands up with his with his guard up. Okay. Okay. Was pissed off. Okay. Then what? Oh. And then I engaged like like there was I mean I don't know. I could have turned around and get my car, but I was kind of lary that he jumped to my car if I hit that. Okay. I didn't know if he was going to get his car and pulled out a gun. So I just Okay. The safest thing for me at that point was to make sure he stayed out of his vehicle and if we engaged that's fine. But then so every time we engaged, broke up, I would try to leave then he would start back. All right. And then um what happened after that? You guys left, right? Yeah, we left. He he said, "Let's go talk to Erica." Cuz I told him, you know, he's saying that, you know, he tell cuz somebody yelled and said, "We calling the cops." And he was like, "Well, let me tell you what happened. Let me tell y'all what happened. He he he uh came here to see my wife." And I was like, "First of all, she's married to me. She's legally married. We're not divorced. We never talked about it. Had I known he was there, there's no way I would have came cuz I knew this would have happened." So I saw you guys like speeding down that residential area. What was going on with that? Who's going back to back? That was just after that was just after the dollar jump. So how do we get on US one? I got 29. Like I'm not so I don't I don't even know. Where's US one? This this is US one. Yeah, I got Okay. So then you guys turned down the roundabout. What happened then after that? When we turned about That's when he hit my car. He crashed into you at the roundabout. Yeah. Well, no, no, he crashed into me on this straight like right down there and I pulled over my car cuz it it just it made my car stop. I couldn't drop it. So, I just pulled over, shut it off, and shut it back on. And then he ran back up on me cuz he after he did that, he turned around and went that way. But then I guess we seen my car moving again. He came back and that's when I was fired. Okay. Where was he when when you opened fire on? right next to me like in in the lane like right next to me. Okay. What was he doing then? Did you see him? He he rolled his window. I wasn't like Okay. Did he didn't point anything at you or I thought maybe I saw him, but I don't know. Like he he could have been pointing he it looked like he pointed something, but I wasn't trying to figure out or wait for it. After he hit my car, I assumed he was going to do something else. Okay. After you shot, what happened? After I shot any low. Okay. And then we got here, right? Which which firearm did you shoot? 500. All right. That's still in the car, right? We're in the car. Both of them. 311. Okay. Oh, we're going to let the medics talk to go. You're interrupting our crime scene. Go. I'm done talking to you. I'm going. [Applause] I didn't know that. I didn't know how that why you do that. I'm I just want to confirm that if you need to sign it. Just confirming you were leaving your house. You're about to go somewhere. As you're walking, you see his car creeping up creeping up the block. Yep. Didn't know who it was cuz you're in this hold. Right. As he's doing that, you see a camera taking pictures of you and start to leave. So, you start to follow it cuz you didn't know who it was. He was taking pictures of the house because he know I was in the car. Okay. Yeah. I had not sat in the car by any So, you're already in the car when he started creeping up the Okay. So, you're already in the car and he didn't know you were there and you started creeping up taking pictures. You leave to go follow cuz you didn't know who was taking your house. You see him running red lights or running stop signs rather and driving fast. When he stops the light, you pull up next to him and that's when you realize it was his. It was him. Okay. And then what he say to you again when you guys locked eyes and like, "Oh, it's you." I said, "Oh, it's you." He was like, "Yeah, it's me." And then I was like, "Bitch, you done [ __ ] up." He talking about, "Follow me then. What you want to do? Follow me." And we ended up going to the dollar. Okay. Oh, yeah. [ __ ] you going to give me my 21? You going to give me my vade, [ __ ] So then once you guys there, what exactly happened once you guys actually got to parking parking spots? You just hop out right in the middle of the parking lot. Basically, I'm pretty sure they got everything on camera. Y'all can go ahead and pull the cameras cuz I want to see them [ __ ] All right. And then that's when someone said they were calling the police. Yeah. They was coming out recording and calling and saying they was calling the police. And by that time we had to stop fighting. We was just bouncing around back and forth. You know what I'm saying? He was instead of trying to come at me. I had did my thing. So I'm like, "What the [ __ ] bro?" And he started walking toward me. You know what I'm saying? I'm like, "Back your ass up. Back your ass up." You feel me? And so he trying to kick me and [ __ ] like that right there with his stupid ass. So goddamn when the people was like, "Oh, because I'm on the phone with 911." That's when he tried to book to his car whole ass. Oh no, [ __ ] You ain't getting no for me. You done came down all the way down here. You going to get all this [ __ ] [ __ ] You going to get all this [ __ ] So then you started following him. So he let the police know where he was going and all that. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. And where which way did he go from there? He went all the way through my neighborhood. Then after he got So he he did he turn up uh Lake View like across Belair like once he pulls out Dollar General. When he when he pulled back out of Dollar General, that's what Mantis. Yeah, it's Matanzas and then Belair and then goes to Lake. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. He pulled out of Dollar General on Mantanzas. Yep. And then hauled ass down Mantanzas till you went to the roundabout. Okay. Did you guys go into the residential at all after you left? No, we didn't go in the residential. He shot straight down Mantanzas. Okay. You shot straight down Mantanzas. And when he come down Mantanzas, I was on his ass. He was trying to hold ass, but he couldn't lose me. He shot through the roundabout, shot this way. When he realized he wasn't going to lose me, that's when he pulled over. So you're following him. He pulls off the road. Then what do you do when you see him pull off? When um when you talking about when you pull Yeah. So you came through the roundabout, you see him pull off the road and then I pulled I pulled off behind him. Okay. But I wasn't off the road like he was. Yeah. But you were stopped. Yeah. But I was stopped and I was talking to the dispatcher. That's when he opened the door and I seen the gun. And I So he opened the door up all the way? Yeah. He opened that [ __ ] damn near all the way. Yeah. Okay. And then left like you see him gun in hand, both hands one handed. Boom. I go to blue. What What did the gun look like? Like you saw that [ __ ] was about about that long. Yeah. And that [ __ ] was shiny. Don't nothing looked like a revolver but a revolver. Yeah. So So the [ __ ] looked like a revolver to me. Okay. And that's when the dude said it was you found a revolver. That's the [ __ ] he had. Yeah. So it looked like a revolver. He was pointing at you. That's when he tried to do a U-turn. Yep. I bust I went back the other way. I was still on the phone with the dispatch and by that time I seen the patrol truck cutting. Yeah. And he he shot at you while you're doing a U-turn. Yep. Yep. That's a Yo, that he shot at me. W He shot at me after I made the U-turn. That's why I thought that hole in the back was another gunshot, but that's a exit hole. So, as you're driving away, was he still shooting? He was still shooting. He was still shooting at me when I was going the other direction. Okay. When I seen the [ __ ] I told the dispatch, I said, "He's still shooting at me." When the patrol truck came, I hopped behind the patrol truck. Okay. Cuz it looked like they was going to pass him, but then he jumped back and jumped behind me. Yeah. And then that's when we ended up Okay. That's where we end up here. the year. Hey, Dollar General. I was tempted to go back and look for it. And you know what's No, you know what's crazy though? I never could understand how the [ __ ] Mike Tyson did that [ __ ] That [ __ ] was easy as [ __ ] That [ __ ] was easy as [ __ ] I see why. When your [ __ ] going, your adrenaline and [ __ ] going, man, I snatch that [ __ ] [ __ ] off, bro. Do you swear and affirm everything to the best of your knowledge? I do. All right. Sign right here. Yo. Yo, that [ __ ] was easy as [ __ ] He know parking lot in the grass right there on the edge. I'll show you. Meet me up there. But uh yo, need to get it right now. [ __ ] that [ __ ] If I find it, he the date 24 and then the second page sign that one as well. [Music] Open four. What else? Okay. I think I got like one more thing I got for you real quick. [ __ ] I'm so mad. I'm going to jump in that patrol car. Beat his ass. Take this off his ass. Take the cuss off. I think you had enough for today. I don't even tell me to stop. I don't even tell me to stop. That PTSD a [ __ ] That PTSD a [ __ ] You stand by the front. I just got to put some numbers on this for you. Mhm. Get the insurance ready. Matter of fact, this is a [ __ ] Oh. Oh, this is a highway situation, right? Uh, I'm going to go through his insurance. Good. Probably. Honestly, I'm going to go through his [ __ ] insurance. This right here is a victim's right brochure. Just talks about what it means to be a victim, the top of the commercial process. Has a bunch of phone numbers and resources inside. But the case number for this is right here, 24-9696. So, this is for you and your records. All right. Um, just have to wait a second. We'll get with the supervisor, see if that what they need you for before you go and talk to your friends and all that. And got to wait a second. got done exactly what they uh want you to do cuz I got to get out this ring. I ain't no suspect. I can't sit out here. I got you. Just stay right here. I'll ask them real quick. See what else they they need from here. Smith pleaded guilty to the charges and was sentenced to several months on probation. Life is full of challenging encounters and sometimes those involving matters of the heart can be the most perilous. As always, we express our gratitude to the officers for their diligence in handling the situation. It's essential to remember the human aspect of such events. the victim who endured a traumatic experience, the defendant who now faces the consequences of his actions, and the law enforcement officers whose professionalism ensured a peaceful resolution. May this incident serve as a reminder of the importance of conflict resolution and the impact of our choices.