OSCEOLA COUNTY, Fla. – A driver was grazed by a bullet and his passenger was shot in the face Tuesday afternoon in a road-rage shooting in Osceola County, according to the sheriff’s office.
Deputies responded around 4 p.m. to HCA Florida Poinciana Medical Center, where the victims had driven themselves to be treated. The victims’ vehicle, a black Ford Expedition, had the back window shot out and the front window was damaged.
According to the Osceola County Sheriff’s Office, the victims — a 40-year-old man who was driving the Ford Expedition and his cousin, a 39-year-old man — were traveling on Cypress Parkway when the road-rage incident happened with another vehicle.
Both vehicles stopped at one point and the shooter went up to the Ford Expedition and yelled at the driver, who also got out of the vehicle, deputies said. The shooter threatened the 40-year-old driver with a gun, according to authorities.
The driver of the Ford Expedition got back into the vehicle and continued driving on Cypress Parkway before turning onto Marigold Avenue. The shooter then fired three times at the Ford Expedition, grazing the driver’s head and striking the passenger in the head, the sheriff’s office said.
At the hospital, the driver was treated and released while the man’s cousin was airlifted to Osceola Regional.
Deputies are working to identify the shooter and their vehicle.
Anyone with information is asked to call the sheriff’s office.
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