UNIVERSITY CITY, Mo. — A man was arrested and charged after University City police said he shot another driver during a Wednesday morning road rage incident.
St. Louis County prosecutors charged Octavian Carr, 33, of Hazelwood, with first-degree assault and armed criminal action.
The University City Police Department said officers responded at about 8:30 a.m. to the 8400 block of Delmar Boulevard, where they found the driver of a car had been shot in the left shoulder.
Police said the incident started on southbound Interstate 170 when the victim saw a black Toyota Camry driving recklessly in her rearview mirror.
The victim tried to change lanes to exit onto Delmar Boulevard in an attempt to avoid the Camry.
"The maneuver, however, cut off the black sedan," police said in a probable cause statement.
The driver of the Camry also exited at Delmar Boulevard and stopped at a red light. The victim pulled over to the shoulder because she was "startled."
Carr fired five or six shots toward the victim's car. The woman was taken to a St. Louis hospital for treatment of her injuries.
Carr then drove away. Police later found him driving the Camry at a gas station in St. Louis. A loaded 9mm Springfield XDS was also found inside his car.
Carr admitted in an interview that he got angry because he thought the woman was trying to cut him off, police said.
"He knows he shouldn't have done it and he let his anger get the best of him," a University City officer wrote in a probable cause statement.
Online court records show Carr pleaded guilty in 2012 to a misdemeanor charge of harassment of a person under 17 years old in Columbia, Missouri.
Carr was being held at the St. Louis County Justice Center on a $150,000 bond. A judge also ordered him to have no contact with the victim and to refrain from driving or owning weapons.
