Posted on 03/01/2026 4:41:23 AM PST by marktwain
In 911 recordings, the two men involved in a road rage incident give chilling details of what happened to them on Interstate 587 Monday morning.
The Wilson County Sheriff’s Office is investigating the incident that left one driver, Isaiah Quawi Farden, 20, of Greenville, crashed and the other, Anthony Alan Cape, 39, of Goldsboro, shot and in critical condition.
The first call lasts just over four minutes and is from Cape at 7:15 a.m.
Yelling, Cape can be heard using multiple expletives and a racial slur, saying he had just been shot by a man with an “AR.”
During the 911 call, multiple gunshots are heard. “I need help now. I’m going to f------ bleed out,” Cape tells the dispatcher.
GUNSHOT CALL
Chief of Staff Wanda Samuel of the Wilson County Sheriff’s Office said the WCSO and North Carolina State Highway Patrol were dispatched to a gunshot call on Interstate 587 near Exit 22, the Downing Street exit.
Samuel said the Highway Patrol asked the sheriff’s office to investigate the case.
“This case is still under investigation and will be reviewed by the district attorney’s office,” Samuel said.
Samuel said both drivers were traveling on Interstate 587 toward Greenville. Vehicle electronics
“It was reported that Farden possibly merged into Cape’s lane of travel, cutting him off, which started the aggressive behavior and reckless driving,” Samuel said. “At some point, Cape does a PIT maneuver and runs into the back of Farden’s car, causing him to run off the roadway and crash.”
Samuel said Cape then got out of his vehicle, walked to the Farden car and opened the door.
“During this time, Farden fired several shots, striking Cape,” Samuel said.
Wilson County EMS took Cape to ECU Health Medical Center in Greenville.
A spokesman from the hospital said Cape was still in critical condition as of Wednesday, but on Thursday said the hospital could no longer give information about the patient.
‘I THINK HE IS GRABBING A GUN’
Cape continued his 911 call, yelling as he told dispatchers what was going on.
“He got in front of me and just started shooting me,” he tells the dispatcher, who asks if there is any serious bleeding.
“Yes, I told you I got hit in the artery,” Cape says. “I’ve got blood spraying everywhere.”
Cape tells the dispatcher that he has been hit in the arm, and “I got shot in the torso multiple times.”
Around the same time, the communications center also received a call from the other driver, Farden.Car dealership
“Somebody just hit my car and then just tried to break my window,” Farden tells the dispatcher. “I am on the highway. I think he is grabbing a gun.”
Farden told the dispatcher that he was about to exit the highway when the other man, Cape, hit Farden’s car, then stopped and came up to Farden’s window.
“I started shooting at him. The guy hit me and then he got out of his car and he started hitting my window,” Farden told the dispatcher. “I was the one who was doing the shots because he was banging on my window.”
Farden tells the dispatcher that he is armed with “a long rifle 22.”
“So, basically, I was taking the exit and then he came,” Farden told the dispatcher. “We was coming down the same highway. I got it on video. He was trying to like run me off the road. I don’t know why he was trying to run me off the road, and then we got to the exit and we got to like the three lanes and he was behind the car that was behind me, so I guess he was trying to cut in front of the car that was behind me, and then he came. He was speeding so, when he came, I was merging into the other lane too, so he hit me. That’s when he pulled my door open and when he pulled my door open, that’s when I cocked the rifle back and I just shot him. I have got a video of him walking up to my car. I don’t know why he stopped.”
The dispatcher tells Farden not to touch the gun and to wait until officers arrive.
Two other 911 calls were also sent to the Times. In one, a driver reports seeing a man “in the middle of the road in a black Chevrolet Avalanche pickup truck.”
“He looked like he was trying to put a tourniquet on his arm,” the caller tells the dispatcher. “I think he has a pretty deep cut on his arm. It looked pretty bad.”
A second witness told a dispatcher they had seen an accident.
“It looks like one of the drivers is standing on the road with an AR-style rifle,” the second witness told the dispatcher.
The recordings were provided by the Wilson County Emergency Communications Center after a public records request from the The Wilson Times.
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I have an old AR looking 22 from the Philippines.
Road Rage...it can get you killed.
> At some point, Cape does a PIT maneuver and runs into the back of Farden’s car <
Mr. Cape just lost all my sympathy right there. It’s a classic FAFO situation.
Always carry. Never rage.
Must be an ECU student. That stiff's name isn't a Pitt County name.
Isaiah sounds like a black moose limb. Just another case of FAFO.
After the “defender” cut the “attacker” off while driving - potentially with serious injury - or worse.
I’m not excusing the road rage - that behavior is playing with fire also.
After the “defender” cut the “attacker” off while driving - potentially with serious injury - or worse.
I’m not excusing the road rage - that behavior is playing with fire also.
After the “defender” cut the “attacker” off while driving - potentially with serious injury - or worse.
I’m not excusing the road rage - that behavior is playing with fire also.
Sorry for triple post. Bad connection.
I moved to NC 5 years ago. NC drivers are rude, mean and stupid. They tailgate and swerve around you. Add to that, there are gobs of them who have crowded in from all over.
Hope Cape survives. Hope be serves just enough time to realize how stupid he is.
People seem to be driving a lot more nuts today, especially when it comes to speed. I just ignore them, they want to risk killing themselves be my guest.
ECU 94 here. Definitely not a Pitt County name. Greenville has gotten rough since I left there. Used to be a great town. Arrrrgh!!!
Those are transplanted Yankees doing that.
They’re from “Up North” and other countries.
“NC drivers are rude, mean and stupid. They tailgate and swerve around you.”
This is true. I say this as an NC driver.
Add to this the large subset of pickup truck drivers who believe— by Divine ordinance— their truck gives them moral authority to physically domineer other drivers.
Highway patrols are rarely seen anymore. I see the most egregious speeding, swerving, and stupidity on a daily basis and hardly ever see someone pulled over.
I see it often enough: a driver will pass another car to take the same exit. Even though both were already in the right-most lane to take the exit. Why the need to pass when all the driver needed to do was stay in their lane and take the same exit?
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