'I'm going to f—ing shoot you': Man demanded driver 'get out' of car before taking shot at his vehicle in road rage encounter, police say

A 24-year-old antheral successful Florida is accused of attempting to termination a operator during a road rage incidental implicit the weekend, allegedly pulling up alongside the unfortunate and ordering him to get retired of his car earlier firing and astir hitting the different man.

Raul Alejandro Fontaine is facing 1 number each of second-degree attempted murder, discharging a firearm from a vehicle, and unlawfully discharging a firearm successful a nationalist place, tribunal records show.

According to a probable origin affidavit, the unfortunate went to the Miami-Dade Sheriff's Office Hammocks District presumption conscionable aft noon connected Saturday to study the alleged incident. He had retrieved the slug Fontaine allegedly fired astatine him and gave it to deputies.

Deputies accompanied the unfortunate to the 13300 artifact of SW 88th Street to inspect the area. There, they noted that a partition had been damaged wherever the slug appeared to person struck.

The unfortunate said helium was driving westbound connected 88th Street erstwhile an chartless male, aboriginal identified arsenic Fontaine, successful a achromatic Jeep Gladiator drove onto the sidewalk and stopped adjacent to the passenger-side doorway of his car.

Fontaine allegedly yelled, "You don't cognize who I am. Get retired of the car. I'll bushed your a—."

The unfortunate said helium was capable to thrust distant from the archetypal interaction, but Fontaine followed him and stopped adjacent to his driver-side model and allegedly yelled, "I'm going to f—ing sprout you."

"The unfortunate stated helium was successful fearfulness for his beingness erstwhile the suspect recklessly and negligently discharged a firearm from his conveyance arsenic helium was traveling connected SW 88th Street during dense traffic, surrounded by aggregate vehicles, successful the absorption of the victim, astir striking him," the affidavit states. "The enactment was imminently unsafe to the unfortunate and demonstrated a depraved caput without respect for immoderate quality life."

Because the unfortunate was stopped astatine the time, helium was capable to get retired of his car and retrieve the spent round, which had struck the partition and stopped successful the thoroughfare adjacent to his car. He past followed the shooter, utilizing his cellphone to grounds the conveyance and licence plate.

Once helium had the shooter's licence plate, the unfortunate drove to the sheriff's bureau and a BOLO was enactment retired for the Jeep Gladiator.

Authorities soon located the Jeep parked extracurricular a residence successful the 13000 artifact of SW 202nd Avenue successful Miami. Deputies established a perimeter astir the code and took Fontaine into custody aft helium was spotted walking nearby.

In a post-Miranda interrogation with detectives, Fontaine admitted that helium was progressive successful a roadworthy rage incident, claiming helium fired a azygous changeable astatine a adjacent partition successful an effort to scare the different person, Miami ABC affiliate WPLG reported.

Fontaine is presently being held astatine the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center without bond, records show. He is scheduled to look successful tribunal Wednesday for a pretrial detention hearing.