Road rage incidents happen every day across the country, but most of them do not involve a family of five staring down the barrel of what they believed to be a loaded handgun. That is exactly what happened recently in Commerce City, Colorado, when a driver in a fit of rage allegedly pointed a weapon at a family before speeding off into the night.
For the family, the nightmare did not end when the other car disappeared. They had no way of knowing whether the suspect would return, whether police would find him, or whether anyone else on the road would become a target. It was the kind of incident that leaves people shaken for weeks.
What happened next, however, is where this story takes a turn that feels almost pulled from a sci-fi procedural. Instead of dispatching a fleet of cruisers to canvas the area and hope for the best, Commerce City police had something a little more high-tech on their side…