COVINGTON, La. (WGNO) – An Alabama man was arrested near Covington this morning after reportedly firing a handgun during a road rage incident.
According to the St. Tammany Parish Sheriff’s Office, deputies were dispatched just before 10 a.m. to I-12 near the La. 1077 exit, where a driver had allegedly fired a handgun out of the window of his vehicle.
The other driver said he was traveling on I-10 East when he pulled in front of a Nissan Altima. The driver of the Altima then pulled a handgun out and fired two or three shots into the air.
Deputies found the vehicle in the River Chase parking lot and waited for the driver, 23-year-old Pierre Newberry of Selma, Alabama, to exit a nearby business.
Newberry was arrested and booked into the St. Tammany Parish Jail on charges of aggravated assault with a firearm and illegal use of weapons.