'You should be scared, b–': Army vet attacked during road rage incident says woman went after him because he was driving too slow

A California pistillate was precocious arrested aft utilizing a pepper spray-like substance connected an Army seasoned during a road rage incident, according to instrumentality enforcement successful the Golden State.

Tiffany Bagby, 41, stands accused of 1 number each of false imprisonment, battle apt to origin large bodily injury, unlawful usage of teardrop gas, obstructing a bid officer, battery with superior bodily injury, evading constabulary by driving the incorrect way, and carrying a concealed dagger, according to the Vallejo Police Department.

The underlying incidental occurred connected Monday greeting connected Wilson Avenue on the waterfront successful Vallejo – a ample metropolis located astir 30 miles northbound of San Francisco and portion of the broader Bay Area.

Officers responded and spoke with the victim, who said that a pistillate driving a reddish Nissan Altima "began making obscene gestures astatine him," according to a press release issued by the constabulary department.

"She past aggressively sped successful beforehand of his conveyance and blocked him from leaving," constabulary said.

As it turned out, the suspect allegedly had the victim, Joe Vallely, successful her sights due to the fact that she believed helium was driving excessively slowly, according to a study by Oakland-based Fox affiliate KTVU.

Vallely utilized his cellphone to papers the interaction.

"You scared?" the pistillate says connected the video. "You should beryllium frightened b–."

After the pistillate sauntered up to the seasoned successful his achromatic enactment truck, she raised her manus and sprayed an orangish liquid into Vallely's unfastened driver-side window. Then, the antheral repeatedly screamed successful pain.

"Immediately felt the capsicum spray," Vallely told KTVU earlier this week. "She was similar 2 feet away. She got maine straight successful the eyeballs. It felt similar idiosyncratic was sandblasting my eyeballs with glass."

In further comments to the TV station, the unfortunate said the metropolis precocious installed a bid of bumps known arsenic "speed tables" intended to dilatory vehicles down considerably, aft receiving aggregate complaints astir radical driving implicit the velocity bounds connected Wilson Avenue.

"I noticed idiosyncratic was tailgating maine and flipping maine off," Vallely explained, saying you person to dilatory down connected the agelong of road. "And I'm driving the bucket motortruck dilatory due to the fact that it's large and aged and heavy."

Eventually, the pistillate drove astir him adjacent an intersection wherever the roadway widens to 2 lanes, the unfortunate said.

"She slammed connected her brakes, she forced maine to slam connected my brakes," Vallely added successful his comments to KTVU. "And there's cars down maine that astir deed me. I astir deed the lady."

The antheral says helium backed up arsenic helium saw the pistillate coming his way.

"In the video, I said nothing, I wanted nary confrontation," Vallely continued. "I wanted thing to bash with immoderate interaction. I was conscionable trying to debar the concern astatine each costs."

After that, helium drove distant to find information and lavation his face.

Then came a hunt for the defendant.

"Officers aboriginal identified the fishy and attempted to interaction her astatine her residence; however, she refused to cooperate oregon sermon the incident," according to the constabulary department.

On May 14, officers spotted Bagby retired driving astir 3 miles northbound of wherever the roadworthy rage incidental occurred, constabulary said.

"They conducted a postulation stop, but erstwhile officers approached her vehicle, she refused their commands to exit and past drove away, starring to a high-speed pursuit," the constabulary section said.

After a astir 4-mile chase, however, Bagby allegedly pulled implicit and was yet arrested, according to instrumentality enforcement.

"During the arrest, officers discovered a ample concealed weapon hidden betwixt the driver's spot and the halfway console of the vehicle," the property merchandise goes on. "After her arrest, the fishy admitted to having pepper-sprayed the unfortunate during the archetypal roadworthy rage incident."

The suspect is presently detained successful the Solano County Jail connected $108,334 bond, records show.

In another video obtained by KTVU newsman Henry K. Lee, a pistillate identified arsenic Bagby accepts culpability for the incident.

"I conscionable wasn't successful the temper for it," she said. "Him being a antheral and maine being a woman. I've been my ain protector my full life. I got retired the car. And helium began to grounds me. And yes, I pepper-sprayed him."