GLENDALE, AZ — Police are searching for a truck they say was involved in a road rage shooting early Saturday morning on Loop 101.
Glendale police say the Arizona Department of Public Safety was originally called for the shooting that happened on L-101 near 75th Avenue.
The shooting stemmed from a road rage incident between two vehicles.
Officials say approximately four shots were fired. Some hit the vehicle, but no one inside was hit.
The vehicle that was shot at got off at Bell Road and the suspected shooter's vehicle fled the scene.
The suspected shooter's vehicle is described as a black Nissan Titan pickup truck.
Police continue to investigate the shooting.
Drivers, like Kenyon Baker, tell ABC15 they aren’t surprised to hear there has been yet another road rage shooting.
“On the highway, if you’re going 80, which you’re already speeding, you’re not going fast enough. You try to get over, they cut you off. They won’t let you get over,” Baker said.
Statistics show road rage shootings and injuries have been increasing since 2018.
Arizona now ranks second in the nation for the highest rate of people shot in road rage incidents, according to the gun violence research group "Everytown."
The latest state data shows road rage cases grew 36% from 2021 to 2022.
Threat management expert Carlos Goveo tells ABC15, if you see an aggressive driver don’t engage.
"Once you engage then the blindness of rage comes on and that person is not going to let go. They forget that they want to go somewhere. Now you are the target," said Goveo.
Baker says she always keeps that in mind when she's on the road.
“Once I start noticing the rage of someone, I kind of just move out [of] their way and then go on about their business and do their thing,” Baker told ABC15.
Officials say if you find yourself in an escalated situation on the road call 911 and separate yourself from the aggressive driver.
If you can't, try to drive to a public setting and take note of their license plate and vehicle description.
