Road-rage incident results in Boise police arrest of suspect on multiple charges

Boise Police arrested a 26-year-old Boise man after a road-rage incident turned into much more. On Thursday, just before 5 p.m.

, Boise Police responded to reports of shots fired. Officers found several shell casings in a parking lot but at first couldn’t find any victims or suspects, according to a police news release. Then, officers found an unoccupied “suspect vehicle” near the scene and a “victim vehicle,” at a home in Boise, police said.



Police interviewed three men, who were unharmed. “Thanks to assistance from some observant witnesses, officers later located and interviewed a suspect,” Boise Police said in a news release. “Evidence indicated there had been a road rage situation between the two parties prior to the shots fired.

” After police found the suspect, he allegedly was possessing child sex abuse materials and a stolen vehicle. Police said he gave officers a fake name and tried to hide the gun he allegedly used. He was arrested on suspicion of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, grand theft, destruction of evidence, sexual exploitation of a child, false information provided to an officer and a failure to appear warrant.

.