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ICYMI: Charges dropped against Florida man arrested for bizarre road rage shooting [1]

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Date: 2023-03-13  

Eric Popper will no longer face charges for shooting at another driver through his own windshield during a road rage incident on Interstate 95 in Miami. The video of the aforementioned road rage incident, which occurred in the middle of June 2021, went viral back in January of 2022.

x SLATER SCOOP: Exclusive video of road-rage shooting in Miami from in-car camera.



The shooter seen here was arrested and is awaiting trial. He told cops the other driver fired first.



(Warning: Language and gunfire) pic.twitter.com/10vDVEwBbw — Andy Slater (@AndySlater) January 28, 2022

It was reported that Popper overreacted from a thrown water bottle.

Chilling dash camera video obtained by Local 10 News shows a road rage incident that led to shots being fired. The incident was first reported on last June when two cars were found riddled with bullets on the southbound lanes of I-95 near 135th Street. The suspect, 30-year-old Eric Popper, was driving his black Toyota Venza when new video from the rear of the vehicle shows how he abruptly cut off another driver. That driver began to tailgate Popper, who is then seen slamming on his brakes. According to state troopers, seconds after that the driver pulls up to the passenger side of Popper’s car and throws a water bottle at it. That’s when Popper quickly started shooting right through his own car windows. Video captures the other driver speeding away.

But, with the help of Florida’s “Stand Your Ground” provision, Popper was able to convince authorities that the object aimed at him wasn’t a water bottle, resulting in the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office dropping charges against Popper.

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