• Charges: Christopher Tesarz, 51, is facing one count each of felonious assault and improper handling of a firearm in a motor vehicle in Montgomery County Common Pleas Court.
What was he accused of?
• Road rage: Centerville police responded to a report of gunfire in the first block of Westpark Road around 7:30 a.m. on Oct. 9.
Tesarz fired three shots, according to Centerville police. Two rounds hit the truck and a third hit a business on Westpark Road.
The gunfire reportedly broke a window in the truck. The driver declined to see a medic.
No injuries were reported.
• 911 calls: The two drivers called 911 and reported each other’s behavior.
“Someone tried to run me over and I fired shots at him,” Tesarz told dispatchers, according to dispatch records.
He claimed the other driver tried to pass him in a school zone.
The other driver told 911 dispatchers someone shot at him.
“This guy was doing 10 miles an hour, so I went to go around him,” he said. “He wouldn’t let me pass and then he followed me to work. And then fired shots at me.”
What happens next?
• Court appearance: Tesarz’s arraignment is scheduled for Nov. 4.
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