The man fired a bullet into the driver’s side door of the truck heading north on Seminole Pratt Whitney Road.

WESTLAKE — As a man waited in a pickup while another man went into a liquor store late Oct. 2, a truck pulled up alongside his.

The driver rolled down his window and yelled at the man: "You know you’re not supposed to park there you (expletive) idiot."

He did, the man told Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office authorities. But it was 10:30 p.m. and he was waiting on someone inside the store.

Records indicate the truck’s driver, Paul McClure, waited for the other man to leave the store, then followed the white Dodge pickup as it left the Grove Market Shopping Center on the 5000 block of Seminole Pratt Whitney Road.

On Thursday, authorities arrested McClure, 53, on charges of attempted murder, illegally possessing a gun, discharging a gun from a car and firing into an occupied vehicle. During a brief hearing Friday at the Palm Beach County Jail, a judge ordered that The Acreage resident be held without bail.

McClure was driving erratically as he followed the white pickup, so the driver let McClure’s GMC Denali pass him. They wanted to read his license plate tag.

Authorities noted that the bullet lodged into the driver’s side of the truck, slightly above the door handle.

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Surveillance-camera footage from businesses in the shopping center matched the men’s stories, and a bar tab from Gators Shak, a bar and grill in the plaza, put McClure in the area that night.

When they learned McClure owned a truck with that license plate, a deputy showed the pickup driver a photo lineup.

The driver identified McClure, saying: "That’s the guy that was leaning out the window yelling at me and then pulled up and shot me. ... I remember that face."

In the late 1980s and early 1990s McClure was convicted of shooting into a home, illegally possessing a gun and aggravated assault, according to the arrest report. The details were not immediately available.

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