Articles labeled: road rage

A Phoenix grandmother was left dead and her granddaughter wounded after a road rage incident lead to shots being fired at her car.

Phoenix police said the incident began near 19th Avenue and Bethany Home Road with a minor collision between the Dodge Durango the five people were riding in and a White Ford Escort.

The two drivers got out and a verbal altercation ensued, police said.

The 21-year-old driver of the Escort then followed the Durango to 21st Avenue and Ocotillo Road, where the 26-year-old passenger in the Escort fired several shots into the SUV, police investigators said.

It wasn’t immediately clear how police knew the ages of the people in the Escort.

This seems like a case of some serious road rage. What the hell is wrong with people?

A teenage girl remained in critical condition Monday after being shot in the head by someone in another vehicle over the weekend, Washington County authorities said.

Nicole Sell, 16, of Slinger, was being treated at Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin in Wauwatosa, Sheriff Dale Schmidt said in a news release.

Sell was one of three people riding in a vehicle in the town of Addison on Saturday night, deputies said. A second vehicle passed the first about 11 p.m. and one or more occupants fired multiple shots into Sell’s vehicle, authorities said.