A Bloomfield dad is facing charges after pulling out a handgun during a road rage incident and pointing it at passengers of another car while driving with his teenage daughter, according to police.
Police said Maurice Elijah Butler, 50, of Bloomfield, was driving southbound on Talcottville Road in Vernon heading toward Manchester the evening of Dec. 4 when he grew angry and took out a gun. Butler’s 14-year-old daughter was in the passenger seat.
Butler pointed the gun at a family driving in another car before getting on the highway, according to police.
He was arrested later at his home on Red Oak Hill in Bloomfield and charged with risk of injury to a child, first-degree reckless endangerment, second-degree threatening, second-degree breach of peace and criminal use of a weapon.
He was held on $100,000 bond.
