Man accused of pulling gun after getting frustrated with traffic from a car crash
By Alanna Flood
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HUDSON, New Hampshire (WMUR) — A Hudson man is being held without bail after police said he pulled a gun when he became frustrated with traffic caused by a car crash.
The incident happened Thursday just before 5:30 p.m., when a car and a UPS truck were involved in a serious crash on Webster Street.
Men working at a nearby auto body shop witnessed the crash and rushed to help. That’s when they said they saw 38-year-old Eric Chadbourne getting upset about the traffic. When they tried to calm him down, they said they noticed he had a gun.
“He said, ‘I just gotta get home,’ and I said, the guy’s over here laying in the ground, we can’t really let you by,” witness Colby Jackson said. “He kept reaching for a pistol in his pocket, and from there we all told him to stop, you don’t want to do this.”
Authorities said Chadbourne then drove over a lawn, nearly hitting a retaining wall, to bypass the crash.
Doorbell video obtained exclusively by News 9 shows Chadbourne’s truck driving over the lawn before witnesses said he stopped, got out, and pulled a weapon.
“I did hear someone yell, ‘Gun,’ and I’m looking at his waistband and I don’t see a gun,” said witness Michael Bromley. “I do see something in his front pocket, which I thought was his cell phone. Police officers told me later that no, it was a gun.”
Police said they later found Chadbourne down the street and questioned him about what happened.
“The subject was unhappy that the traffic had come to a stop and needed to get to the residence down the street, and because of that, he pulled a firearm,” said Hudson police Capt. Patrick Broderick.
Chadbourne faces several charges, including criminal threatening with a deadly weapon.
The Hudson Police Department is still investigating and is asking anyone with information related to the case to contact them.
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