More Post-HB 12 Road Rage
8:16am Wednesday, May 25, 2005
The following stories provides an excellent example of how fights are escalating into shootouts on our streets in the wake of Ohio's passage of concealed carry legislation. Of course, as far as anyone can tell, none of the persons involved had Ohio Concealed Handgun Licenses... And of course in each course, where applicable, the news media failed to make that observation.
This guy was DRIVING his vehicle and still couldn't drive away when attacked in his car…
A Lancaster man is recovering from a drive-by shooting this weekend that left him shaken and his car with two bullet holes in it. [The man] suffered only minor injuries to his arms from shattered glass that splattered during the shoot. He is just glad that's all he has to deal with. [The victim] told deputies he was driving his 2001 Hyundai east on Royalton Road when a dark-color vehicle passed by him and someone in the vehicle shot at him. He wasn't hit, but the car was several times. The shooting occurred around 11:30 p.m., and [the victim] thinks someone fired five times - one bullet pierced the upper part of the door frame near his head. "It happened so fast. It's like they always say on TV, you don't even know what's going on when it happens," [said the victim]. "It doesn't look like a road rage incident," said Fairfield County Sheriff Dave Phalen. "At this stage, we really are not sure what happened or why." Fairfield County Sheriff Lt. Gary Kennedy said detectives were able to take bullets out of [the victim’s] car. The bullets are being sent to Ohio's Bureau of Criminal Identification & Investigation for analysis, Kennedy said.
This woman is extremely fortunate this aggressor didn’t decide to begin striking her with blows capable of shattering car windows.
A Wakeman man was arrested Sunday after he allegedly shattered another car's window following a dispute over passing. Frank Hess, 48, was charged with first-degree misdemeanor counts of assault and criminal damaging Sunday by the Erie County Sheriff's
office. He is scheduled to be arraigned on the charges today at Vermilion Municipal Court. A 24-year-old Lorain woman told deputies Sunday a vehicle tried to pass her vehicle on Ohio 60, but was delayed by traffic. When the vehicle passed, a passenger in the car allegedly made an obscene gesture toward the Lorain woman's car, and her passenger returned the gesture, according to statements in a report. When both cars reached a red light at Ohio 113, Hess and his driver exited their vehicle and walked toward the Lorain woman's car. Hess told a deputy he punched and shattered the passenger-side window of the woman's car during an argument. The passenger in the woman's vehicle initially reported lacerations to her face, but refused medical treatment at the scene, according to a report.
Refuse to be a victim. Take steps to be prepared in case of attack. In doing so, you can save not just yourself, but your loved ones as well.
Samuel met his first razor last month. That he was still buttercheeked and clutching a blue blankie didn’t matter. "Hey, Daddy, when am I gonna get to shave?" the 3-year-old asked. Jason Schmalenberger stood before the bathroom mirror, a hulk of a man at 6-foot-1 and 205 pounds, slathering shaving cream on stubble. It was a Monday morning and he needed to get to work. But he bent down, scooped up his son, stood him on the toilet lid, and smeared on shaving cream. "Danielle, get the camera!" Schmalenberger shouted to his wife in the kitchen. She remembers the laughter as her husband shaved Samuel with the back of the razor. That memory will have to serve for a lifetime. Six days later, on April 3, Jason Schmalenberger was stabbed to death in what deputies describe as road rage.
Prosecutors say Michael A. Gover, a passenger in another car, became enraged when Schmalenberger’s van supposedly drifted too close, causing Gover’s car to swerve. This is what Franklin County sheriff’s detectives said happened next: Gover ordered the driver, an adult, to pursue the van for 4 miles. He cut off Schmalenberger’s van at a stop sign on Parsons Avenue at London-Groveport Road. He jumped out and ordered three juveniles in his car to hand him a knife. He began to stab Schmalenberger…
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