A road rage incident occurred in Panama City Beach Tuesday night has left one man in jail and a family scared.

Investigators with the Bay County Sheriff's Office tell us it happened about 5 pm.

They say a man in a car with Missouri tags allegedly pulled a gun out near Moylan Road and Back Beach Road and fired it once in the air as a warning to another driver.

That driver, was a husband whose wife and 1-year-old were in the car with him. After the shot was allegedly fired, the man drove with his family to a safe area and called 911.

Deputies caught up with the car a short time later with the help of "Air 1", the sheriff's office helicopter.

Christopher Michael Keaton, 25, of Columbus, Indiana, is charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and reckless discharge of a firearm within 1000 feet of a person.

According to a news release from BCSO, "A search of Keaton's vehicle turned up the handgun and a spent shell casing."

He's in the Bay County Jail.