Woman shoots driver dead for honking at her because she didn’t go quickly enough when the light turned green, cops say

Authorities in Indiana arrested a 23-year-old woman after she allegedly shot a man to death because he honked at her for not driving through a green light in a road rage incident.

Deborah Benefiel stands accused of murder and criminal recklessness in the Friday shooting death of 21-year-old Kentrell Settles in Indianapolis, according to the Marion County Prosecutor’s Office.

A probable cause arrest affidavit obtained by Law&Crime said officers with the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department responded to the intersection of West 38th Street and Georgetown Road for a shots-fired investigation. When they arrived they found Settles inside a 2006 Chevrolet Malibu suffering from a gunshot wound to the chest. He was rushed to the hospital where doctors pronounced him dead…

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