PAW PAW, Mich. (WOOD) — A man accused of accosting a woman with a chain saw following a road rage incident in Southwest Michigan said he did it after she “approached his truck yelling and screaming,” according to a police report.
“The woman was yelling right in his face; she was belligerent and aggressive,” a Van Buren County sheriff’s deputy write in a police report, recounting what Leonard Lowell Yonkman told him in an interview.
When asked about pulling a chain saw from the bed of his pickup and confronting the woman, Yonkman “looked away from me, hesitated and replied: ‘I was checking the contents of my truck and I had a chain saw, yes,” according to the police report.
“He said he was not using it in any way to try to cut her or do anything to her,” the deputy wrote in the police report…