Man charged in road rage shooting, armed confrontation

Andrew Binion | Kitsap

PORT ORCHARD — A man armed with a pistol suspected of confronting a couple in front of their Port Orchard house on Sunday as they did yard work is also suspected of shooting at a driver on Mitchell Road SW the night before.

No one was injured.

Trivelle Maurice Jordan, 48, was charged Monday in Kitsap County Superior Court with first-degree assault and drive-by shooting for the road rage incident and second-degree assault for confronting the couple. He pleaded not guilty.

The driver told Kitsap County Sheriff’s deputies that on Saturday night after he passed a slow-moving Audi on Bethel Road that the Audi began following him, according to court documents.

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Near the Christian Life Center on Lincoln Avenue in Port Orchard, the Audi sped up and passed the man. The man said he slowed down to allow some distance between his vehicle and the Audi when he saw a flash of light, believed to have come from firing a gun. Deputies found .40-caliber pistol and a spent shell casing in the Audi when they arrested Jordan. Deputies also found a shotgun in the trunk.

The man said that “after he braked, the Audi suddenly braked and fired the shot out of the passenger window,” a deputy wrote in court documents. The man said he knew the Audi’s window was rolled down “because he could clearly see the Audi’s dashboard and muzzle flash.”

Jordan allegedly confessed to shooting at the man, telling investigators the driver had annoyed him and later telling a sergeant that he had PTSD and that the people in the vehicle scared him.

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“He said he pointed the gun at the (other vehicle) and fired a single shot at them to make them go away,” according to court documents.

Deputies were looking for Jordan after a couple called 911 Sunday morning to report he had appeared in their front yard, carrying a gun, screaming that the man had driven his motorcycle past Jordan’s house, according to court documents. The couple lives about 500 yards from where the alleged road rage shooting occurred.

The man said he has known Jordan for 25 years. He believed Jordan was upset over his pending divorce. The couple remained friends with Jordan's wife, according to court documents.

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During the confrontation, the woman told Jordan that her husband was prevented from riding his motorcycle because of a recent surgery, which she told deputies may have persuaded Jordan to get back into his car and leave.

The deputy described the couple as “very visibly shaken.”

“They both kept telling me that they were certain that Jordan was going to shoot (the man),” the deputy wrote. “They also stated many times that they are extremely scared that when Jordan gets out of jail he is going to come after them.”

Jordan is being held in the Kitsap County Jail on $200,000 bail.

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