Inset: Christopher John Walters (High Point Jail). Background: Video apparently recorded by the victim appears to show the suspect threatening people in another vehicle (WFMY/YouTube).
A North Carolina man is accused of threatening to kill a woman and her 3-year-old son during a road-rage encounter, authorities said.
Christopher John Walters, 48, faces a misdemeanor charge of communicating threats, according to court records reviewed by Law&Crime.
Walters was arrested Thursday on an assault on a female charge tied to a separate case, the Greensboro Police Department said.
The road-rage allegations stem from July 31, when a woman said she was traveling on Interstate 85 in North Carolina with her child. She told area CBS affiliate WFMY that Walters cut her off, and after she honked, he appeared to become angry.
Police said a video shared online appears to show Walters making “multiple verbal threats to a Greensboro woman.” In the footage, the driver seems to accelerate alongside her vehicle, look over, and shout.
“You are going to die,” the man in the video yells. He also shouts, “I could kill you.”
A warrant issued in the case says Walters repeated each threat three times.
Authorities added that “the threat was made in a manner and under circumstances which would cause reasonable person to believe that the threat was likely to be carried out and the person threatened believed that the threat would be carried out.”
The woman called 911 to report the incident, and the Greensboro Police Department filed the report. By the time a detective met with her, Walters was apparently already in the High Point Jail on the other charge.
In that case, the man reportedly pushed a woman in High Point, North Carolina, “into a dresser, causing a bruise to her arm.”
The defendant is next scheduled to appear in court on Sept. 8.
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