Posted on 03/17/2018 4:52:22 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie
A woman who fatally shot a man on a shoulder of Interstate 5 during a road-rage incident last month will not be charged, the Pierce County Prosecutor’s Office said Friday.
The 23-year-old woman acted in self defense, prosecutors said. The News Tribune has chosen not to publish her name because she was never arrested or charged with a crime.
Witnesses said the man, 60-year-old Bruce W. Jones, was upset with how the woman was driving her motorcycle Feb. 8 on the southbound freeway near the King-Pierce County line in Milton. He tried to box the woman in with his 2016 GMC Terrain, then got out of his vehicle and “aggressively approached her on the shoulder of Interstate 5,” the Prosecutor’s Office said in a news release.
Jones started a fight with the woman and at some point she head-butted him. Jones then slammed the woman’s head into a jersey barrier and took her to the ground. As Jones tried to climb on top of her, she shot him in the chest with a handgun. He died at the scene.
The motorcyclist, who had a concealed pistol license, called 911 and waited for investigators. She was detained and then released while prosecutors made a charging decision.
Jones’ wife was a passenger in the GMC and was not injured.
“This is another reminder to everyone to keep a cool head on our roads,” Prosecutor Mark Lindquist said. “Nothing good is going to come from physically confronting another driver.”
The investigation of the shooting caused significant backups on the freeway, as police closed two lanes of I-5 for about four hours.
I guess you have Brown or Pelosi barriers out there.
It would have been deadly for sure
if the guy had been shot in the fracas.
A Jersey barrier, or Jersey wall, is a modular concrete or plastic barrier employed to separate lanes of traffic. It is designed to minimize vehicle damage in cases of incidental contact while still preventing the crossover case of a head-on collision. Jersey barriers are also used to reroute traffic and protect pedestrians and workers during highway construction, as well as temporary and semi-permanent protections against landborne attack such as suicide vehicle bombs. A Jersey barrier is also known in the western United States as K-rail, or K-wall, a term borrowed from the California Department of Transportation specification for temporary concrete traffic barriers, or colloquially as a Jersey bump. Plastic water-filled barriers of the same general shape are also now commonly called Jersey barriers.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jersey_barrier
Created in New Jersey hence the name. Don’t know where you live but they may have a local name.
A guy that trys to beat up a woman he does not know,
I’m reminded of the two cops who roll up onto a crime scene where a woman is battered, ribs broken, and her face smashed in.
One cop asks the other, “I wonder what she said to deserve that?”
That's what the old TV Westerns would have you believe. And even if they miss a major vessel, you stand to be seriously crippled.
Makes me think of Trayvon Martin
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They put them up all along the border, to keep people from escaping.
Nope, she definitely shot him on the shoulder.
So in New Jersey, do they call them "joisey barriers" ??
But did he look black? Because if he did, she would be charged with murder, right?
It’s much worse getting shot in the median!
If she’s hot, I vote not guilty.
They found her not guilty, so... ;-)
Big brave man thought he could beat on a woman....found out different
If FR was a freeway this would happen every day or two.
Well, I don't have the experience to compare, I've only been shot in the buttress.
“Jones then slammed the woman’s head into a Jersey barrier”
Why not use a barrier in Washington State? Why go across the country to find something to slam her head on?
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Concrete wall between the two sides of the highway.
I wonder what the deceased’s obit read like.
Nevermind....
I read a report about a woman that had been shot Saturday night and had the bullet in her yet. Still have not found out where her yet is located.
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