A road rage incident on Thursday resulted in gunfire and the arrest of the woman suspected of discharging a handgun toward the occupants of another motor vehicle.
Fiona McCrossin, 22, of the 1700 block of Royal Drive, is charged with one count of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. The charge is a fourth-degree felony.
Shortly before 6 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 8, Las Cruces police were dispatched to the report of a gunshot that was fired during an incident of road rage near Roadrunner Parkway and Lohman Avenue. No injuries were reported.
Investigators learned that a young woman and her 13-year-old sister were traveling east on Lohman Avenue in a tan Lexus. Investigators learned that, prior to arriving at the intersection with Roadrunner Parkway, a tan Mazda sedan driven by a woman approached and the drivers of both vehicles began honking their car horns at each other.
Investigators learned that both vehicles turned north on Roadrunner Parkway and both drivers engaged in aggressive driving. At about that time the driver of the Mazda, later identified as McCrossin, pointed a handgun at the Lexus and discharged one round.
Police learned the round fired by McCrossin shattered the back window of her own vehicle.
McCrossin fled the immediate area but was located a short while later at an apartment on Roadrunner Parkway. She was taken into custody and police located a spent .380 caliber shell casing inside McCrossin’s Mazda. Police also recovered the .380 caliber handgun McCrossin is believed to have used.
McCrossin was booked into the Dona Ana County Detention Center where she is initially being held without bond.
Information from Las Cruces Police