Woman says motorist fired three gunshots

STETSON — A man driving a black Chevrolet Camaro chased down and fired three shots at a Stetson woman traveling home in her pickup truck Friday evening, police said.

The woman, her boyfriend, and the 1989 brown Chevrolet pickup escaped unscathed. Penobscot County Sheriff’s Deputy Tom Burgess said the incident was still being investigated Sunday night.

The incident, which was reported to the sheriff’s department at 8:40 p.m. Friday, began on Route 143 where the woman said that she came up on the black, late-model Camaro traveling at 35 mph. She observed that the car was swerving from the center line to the ditch and back again.

There were reportedly two children in the back of the car and a woman in the front passenger seat.

The Camaro came to a sudden stop along the road’s shoulder, she said. “I almost hit him.” The woman guided her pickup around the Camaro and turned left onto the Coboro Roadcq, about 1,000 feet from Route 143.

The driver of the Camaro turned on his high beams and proceeded to follow the woman. “He was right on my rear bumper,” she remarked.

Angry, the woman turned her truck sideways, attempting to get a better look at the man following her. The driver of the Camaro stopped not far from her vehicle’s door, got out and stood along side his vehicle, and began hollering unintelligibly.

The woman’s boyfriend noticed the man was drawing a hand gun, and the woman drove the truck toward Hughy Road. As she drove away, the man fired three shots, none of which hit the truck.

She described the man as husky, in his early 30s, about 5-feet, 8-inches tall, with short brown hair and a mustache.

The woman said she did not know the man, or why he fired shots at her. She suspected, however, that the man may have thought her headlights were on high beam when she was behind him on Route 143, and that he overreacted.