Man charged after road rage shooting in Saline County
Matthew Sanders
COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)
A Boonville man was charged last week with shooting into another vehicle during a road rage incident on Interstate 70 in Saline County.
Mason C. D. Mayhew was charged Friday with first-degree assault, armed criminal action and unlawful use of a weapon for the incident that happened last Wednesday.
A probable cause statement says Missouri State Highway Patrol troopers were sent that afternoon to Interstate 70 at Marshall Junction. They found a Ford and a Chevrolet, both wrecked, with injured people in them, the statement says.
Witnesses told police that the Ford and a Nissan blew past the Chevy driver, with one of them passing on the shoulder and the driver of the Nissan shooting at the Ford, according to the statement. The Ford crashed into the uninvolved Chevrolet, and troopers found bullet holes in the back glass, the driver’s headrest and the windshield of the Ford.
Security cameras on Interstate 70 showed the Nissan speeding and cutting each other off before the shots and the crash, the statement says. The Patrol connected Mayhew to the car with information from a recent traffic stop.
Investigators later found that Mayhew had been arrested in Kansas the day after the crash. The Patrol says Mayhew made phone calls while in jail in Kansas, admitting to the road rage incident.
Another person in Mayhew’s car told investigators that they were traveling to Arizona to get away from the cops.
Mayhew remained in custody in Kansas on Tuesday.