Man formally charged for road rage confrontation that led to woman shot in head

A man accused of firing shots at a woman during a road rage confrontation in Dayton has been indicted.

Jayden Matthews was indicted by a Montgomery County Grand Jury on counts of improper handling of a firearm in a motor vehicle, and carrying concealed weapons.

As News Center 7 previously reported, On Jan. 21 a couple was driving together on Woodley Drive in Dayton when they got in a road rage incident with a white sedan, according to the police report.

The driver of the white sedan fired rounds into the couple’s car hitting a woman in the head.

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The next day officers stopped Matthews near where the shooting was.

He was driving a white Ford Fusion and had a gun on him.

An analysis found that this gun matched the weapon used to shoot the woman, the police report states.

The woman also showed officers a video of a white Ford Fusion that matched Matthew’s following her and her boyfriend before the shooting.

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