CHARLOTTE — A woman said her teenage daughter was attacked Wednesday during a road rage incident in north Charlotte.
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The woman told police a man pulled a gun out and shot at the family’s car Wednesday.
The teen’s mother said it started after her niece called her to tell her a couple ran into her car at the 7-Eleven on Beatties Ford Road.
The woman said she and her daughters confronted the couple at a store down the street and that was when a young man pulled out a gun.
“He pulled out the gun, and he hit my daughter, my 17-year-old, on the head three times with a gun,” the teen’s mother said.
The woman said the man then fired shots at them. No one was hit.
CMPD charged Damian Ross, 22, with several charges, which included four counts of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill.
“Another example of a minor incident where people become upset, and it leads to a violent outcome,” Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department Officer Tom Hildebrand said.
Incidents like that made 2019 one of the most violent in the city’s history, Hildebrand said.
The woman said, “There’s so much going on around right now. I just tell them to be safe, to watch who you’re around, what you’re doing.”
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