Off-duty officer attacked in road rage incident

EAST FINLEY TOWNSHIP, Pa. — An off-duty police officer who works in Allegheny County was the victim of a road rage attack Monday morning in Washington County.

According to Pennsylvania State Police, the suspects are two men in their 30s who were driving a dark-colored truck and wearing camouflage.

The incident happened on Pleasant Grove Road in East Finley Township when the suspected driver did not stop at a stop sign and the off-duty officer began following them in his personal car, police said.

The suspect then stopped in the middle of the roadway and the other suspect got out of the passenger side with a gun and pointed it at the victim's face.

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The officer's wife told Channel 11 her husband's last memory is shoving the camo-coated rifle away before he was beaten unconscious.

Daesha McClay, lives right about Pleasant Grove Road where police were called around 10 a.m. Monday morning, stopped to help the off-duty officer who was bleeding on the side of the road.

"I don't understand how any human can do that to another human and just let them lay there, it's quite horrifying," McClay said.

The victim is recovering at home and his wife said they are grateful for McClay who stopped to help him.

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