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NORTH CHARLESTON — A South Carolina legislator hopes to raise awareness after he said a man threatened him with a gun in a road rage incident in North Charleston.
Rep. J.A. Moore told the SC Daily Gazette he was passing time in the Park Circle neighborhood around 1 p.m. Tuesday, waiting until he could pick up his daughter from her first day of kindergarten at a school just a couple of miles away.
The North Charleston Democrat said he was waiting for a driver to pull out of a parking spot so he could pull in, when a man driving a black truck pulled into the spot ahead of Moore.
Moore, a 39-year-old chef, admits rolling down the window and swearing at the man, who was a stranger to Moore.
In response, the 66-year-old man allegedly pulled out a handgun, according to statements Moore made to the Daily Gazette and a North Charleston Police Department officer.
“It was just shocking for someone to do that over a parking spot,” Moore told the Daily Gazette. “I could have gotten killed. I could have died at that moment, and the first memory my daughter could have had of her going to school is that her father died on the way to pick her up.”