Driver points gun in road rage incident in New Berlin

Police arrested a 32-year-old Sussex man in connection to a road rage incident along an I-43 exit ramp in New Berlin on Saturday, March 31, that led to one driver pointing a loaded handgun at the other.

According to the New Berlin Police Department, shortly after 6 p.m. Saturday, two vehicles entered the exit ramp with one tailing the other one closely. The front vehicle applied the brakes to slow down for the intersection, and as the lane widened near the end of the ramp, the two cars came to a stop side-by-side. The driver of the front vehicle told police the driver of the other vehicle was yelling at him and pointed a “small black handgun at him,” according to police.

The cars then drove in opposite directions, the report said, and the victim soon after flagged down a squad car. The suspect vehicle was located a short time later in Muskego. Officers arrested the Sussex man on suspicion of endangering safety by use of a dangerous weapon.

He said he drew the firearm because he was afraid the other car would follow him and wanted to scare the driver off, according to police. He has a valid concealed-carry permit and when the semiautomatic handgun was recovered, it had six rounds in the magazine and a seventh in the chamber.

He told police it was a “stupid thing to do,” according to the report.