MIAMI – A 31-year-old Jeep driver tapped a gun on another driver’s window during a road rage incident in Miami’s Brickell neighborhood on Tuesday evening, according to police.
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According to an arrest report from the Miami Police Department, the incident began after Jonathan Robert Shapiro, in a white Jeep, wouldn’t let the victim make a turn. The two, police said, “came close to colliding with each other and would not let one another go first.”
Police said the victim told investigators that he saw Shapiro, of west Miami-Dade, putting a gun together, racking it and placing it on his passenger’s seat.
According to the report, the victim allowed Shapiro to drive past and told his passenger to call the police while he followed Shapiro to get his license plate information.
Police said the victim followed Shapiro into the Latitude complex at 175 SW Seventh St. at around 6 p.m. and when he lost sight of Shapiro, stopped to ask a building security guard where the Jeep was.
According to the report, the victim got the answer as he spoke to the guard. Police said Shapiro “drove up next to the victim,” then “grabbed the firearm, pointed the firearm at the driver’s window, and tapped the firearm’s front barrel on the window” without saying a word.
Police said the victim described the gun as a “long black firearm, with a suppressor and a buttstock on the rear.”
Authorities said police arrived at the building and the victim flagged an officer down and pointed to the Jeep, detaining Shapiro.
The arrest report states that CCTV footage showed Shapiro go up to the victim’s window and reach out “with an object in his hand.”
Shapiro declined to speak with officers, who arrested him on two charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, police said.
A judge found probable cause to charge him Wednesday and ordered that he be held on a $10,000 bond, records show.