UNIONTOWN, Pa. (AP) — A western Pennsylvania woman has been jailed on charges she pointed a gun at a man who gave her the finger after she cut him off in traffic.
The man said he soon after forgot about her, until she pulled in front of his home with a gun.
Jesse Blackburn tells Uniontown police that 32-year-old Lindsey Diehl tracked his vehicle and confronted him outside his house on Friday night.
"I started going crazy," the victim Jessie Blackburn said. "'She's got a gun! Help! She's pointing it at me."
Police say Blackburn called 911 to report Diehl pointing a gun at him, during which she got out of her car and hit him with her cell phone.
Blackburn said he run to the back of her car to get her license plate number when she took off, but police said that is when things escalated.
"When she was chasing after me down the alley, hitting me, she was saying, 'Why aren't you fighting back?'"
Police say Diehl denied pointing either of two guns they found in her car at Diehl. Online court records don't list an attorney for her.
Police say Diehl was upset because Blackburn wouldn't apologize for the hand gesture.
She faces a preliminary hearing May 10 on charges of simple assault and reckless endangerment.
The Associated Press contributed to this story