Police investigate road rage incident on I-95 in Tinicum Township

Saturday, January 5, 2019
TINICUM TOWNSHIP, Pa. (WPVI) -- Pennsylvania State Police are investigating a road rage incident in Tinicum Township early Saturday morning.

Troopers from the Media barracks were dispatched around 3:30 a.m. to I-95 North after two vehicles were observed speeding down the highway, with one of the drivers having discharged a firearm at the other.
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Upon arrival, police found both vehicles stopped on the roadway.

But here's the twist, both cars allegedly belong to the driver with the gun.

A man, later identified as 33-year-old Carlos Ojeda-Cortes, remained at the scene and admitted to shooting at the other vehicle.

Ojeda-Cortes said the vehicle he shot at, a white 2013 Nissan Altima, was his and had been stolen from him.



The driver of the Altima fled the scene.
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Police say no other vehicles were hit as bullets flew across the road.

Ojeda-Cortes was arrested and faces charges of Discharge of a Firearm Into an Occupied Structure, and Recklessly Endangering Another Person.

He failed to post bail and now remains in the Delaware County Jail.

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