Road rage: Man arrested, accused of firing shot at slow driver in Taylorsville
by Pat Reavy, KSL.com · KSL.comEstimated read time: 1-2 minutes
TAYLORSVILLE — A Utah man was arrested Wednesday after police say he fired a round through another driver's windshield because he thought the driver was too going too slow.
Capone Hovietz Dickson, 38, was booked into the Salt Lake County Jail for investigation of aggravated assault with a road rage penalty enhancement.
About 8 a.m. on Sept. 12, Taylorsville police "responded to a road rage incident in which the male suspect shot through the victim's windshield after they had stopped on the side of 5740 S. Canal Road to argue about the victim driving too slowly in front of Capone," according to a police booking affidavit.
The victim told police that he was outside of his car and about to get back in when Dickson fired a bullet through the windshield, the affidavit states.
The man then followed Dickson, who fled to a Walmart at 5469 S. Redwood Road. There, security cameras recorded his license plate as he drove through the parking lot, according to the affidavit. Police used that information to identify Dickson.
On Wednesday, he was spotted driving near his apartment and was pulled over by police. He "demanded to know why he was stopped (and) when told, he said he had just been defending himself," according to the affidavit.
During their investigation, officers also talked to Dickson's apartment manager, who said Dickson "is violent, threatening and no longer allowed to talk to his apartment manager in person because of his threats," the affidavit alleges.
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Pat Reavy
Pat Reavy interned with KSL NewsRadio in 1989 and has been a full-time journalist for either KSL NewsRadio, Deseret News or KSL.com since 1991. For the past 25 years, he has worked primarily the cops and courts beat.