A gunman driving an SUV with his wife and child inside critically wounded another man in a Philadelphia road rage shooting Saturday night, police say.
The alleged shooter chased down and fired at the 37-year-old man after the latter had gotten out and pounded on his hood following some sort of altercation on the road, Philadelphia Police Department Inspector D.F. Pace said.
The gunman, driving a Jeep Cherokee SUV with his wife and 7-year-old child inside, first came across the driver of a Chevrolet van on Ridge Avenue, where they engaged in some sort of altercation, Pace said. The van driver at some point got out and pounded on the Chevy’s hood before getting back into his vehicle.
Pace said the SUV driver then chased the van down Ridge Avenue and onto an alleyway just off Hermit Street and Manayunk Avenue, where the van crashed into two other vehicles. The 37-year-old van driver then got out again and approached the SUV, whose driver also got out and told the other driver to back off, Pace said.