DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. — Police have identified two men involved in separate highway shootings in DeKalb County.
DeKalb County police said Damon Fleming, 22, was arrested on June 14 after he shot out a woman’s windshield as she drove with her young child on I-20. Police said the incident happened over Memorial Day weekend and that it was related to road rage. No one was hurt.
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Fleming was charged with aggravated assault and cruelty to children.
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Police say Benjamin O’Connell, 33, was arrested on June 30 for a shooting on I-85 on June 23. Police said O’Connell yelled racial slurs at a woman and shot at her after she blew her horn at him. No one was injured.
O’Connell was also charged with aggravated assault.
These shootings are two more than a dozen shootings that have happened on Atlanta interstates this year.
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Police said in a news conference in June that none of the incidents are related, and that most stemmed from some sort of road rage incident.
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