A woman facing charges in connection with a road-rage shooting on Interstate 95 near Boca Raton told investigators that she fired a “warning shot” that was meant to hit the other driver’s truck, not the driver himself, according to a probable cause affidavit.
Breanna Evans, 26, of Delray Beach, was held in the Broward Main Jail as of Friday. She faces charges including two counts of attempted murder, one count of shooting into an occupied vehicle and one count of shooting from a vehicle.
Evans was driving in a black Chevy Equinox north on I-95 between Hillsboro Boulevard and Palmetto Park Road shortly before 4:30 p.m. Wednesday.
The other driver, a man driving a box truck, told investigators that because of the truck’s size and the speed the Equinox was traveling, “air pressure (also known as aerodynamic drag) caused both vehicles to sideswipe each other,” according to the affidavit.
A passenger in the box truck told investigators the Equinox had been erratically and aggressively swerving in and out of lanes and cut the truck off. The witness said he then saw the driver pull near the truck, point a gun and shoot, according to the affidavit.
The box truck driver then suddenly felt dizzy and a pain in his head, he later told a Broward Sheriff’s Office investigator, at first not realizing he had been shot a single time above his left temple.
The people in the vehicles did not know each other, the Sheriff’s Office previously said.
Breanna Evans, 26, is facing two counts of attempted murder, one count of shooting into an occupied vehicle, and one count of shooting from a vehicle, jail records show. (Broward Sheriff’s Office/Courtesy)
Both cars pulled over to the shoulder of the interstate, and the man who was shot walked over to the Equinox to check “if the driver was OK after the collision,” still without knowing he was hit, he later told investigators while at Delray Medical Center.
He then noticed the Equinox’s window was shattered, and he said the woman inside the car was brandishing a black and purple Glock handgun at him “while cursing and threatening to shoot him,” the affidavit said. He went back to the truck, looked in the mirror and saw he had been shot.
Law enforcement who arrived at the scene saw the Glock handgun and one spent bullet shell casing in plain sight in the Equinox, the affidavit said. Evans agreed to speak with a BSO investigator, saying that she cut off the truck while “in a rush and hated when people drive slow in the fast lane,” the affidavit said.
After cutting off the truck, Evans said the truck tried to swerve into her Equinox multiple times and was in fear that the other driver was trying to “run her off the roadway and felt that she needed to protect herself,” the affidavit said.
“Evans advised she fired a ‘warning shot’ with the intent to strike the vehicle but did not intend to strike the driver,” the affidavit said. “When I asked Evans why she did not honk her horn to alert the driver, she replied she did not think of it.”
The victim remained in the hospital as of Thursday afternoon, Sheriff’s Office spokesperson Veda Coleman-Wright said. She said she did not have an update on his condition as of late Friday afternoon.
A Delray Medical Center spokesperson did not immediately have an update on his condition.
Attorney information for Evans was not available Friday.
