Road rager shoots girl, 5, bullet found in sippy cup: Cops
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Left inset: Charles Stevenson Jr. (Cary Police Department). Right inset: Ema, the 5-year-old girl that Charles Stevenson Jr. allegedly shot and injured in a road rage incident (GoFundMe). Background: First responders on U.S. 1 in Cary, N.C., on Monday July 30, 2025 (WRAL/YouTube).

A 20-year-old in North Carolina allegedly fired at a father driving in rush hour traffic with his 5-year-old daughter in the back seat, with the bullet passing through her leg and lodging in her sippy cup, as reported by police.

“What an image that is,” Aubree Allison, the victim”s aunt, told local NBC affiliate WRAL.

“It’s nothing that you hope happens in your own life,” she said.

Charles Stevenson Jr., of Raleigh, is charged with felony assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill, inflicting serious injury, and discharging a firearm into an occupied vehicle due to the alleged “road rage incident,” according to WRAL. Initially charged with assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill, the charge was upgraded by local prosecutors by the time Stevenson had his court bond hearing on Wednesday.

“One of your charges was dismissed as being recharged in a different way,” Wake County Judge Margaret Eagles told him, according to The News & Observer. “At this time, you’re going to be held with no bond on this charge.”

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Stevenson is accused of shooting a girl named Ema, whose last name is being withheld by media at the request of her family, while she was riding in a Ford F-150 with her father along U.S. 1 between the U.S. 64 offramp and Cary Parkway overpass on Monday. The dad allegedly told cops that Stevenson was driving erratically and had gotten into an altercation with another motorist before he set upon the father and his daughter.

According to the dad, Stevenson threw an object at the other motorist’s car, but it wound up hitting his F-150. The father rolled his window down and began yelling at Stevenson, which allegedly prompted him to fire a single shot from his gun.

“They found the bullet in her sippy cup,” said Ema’s mother, Gina, in an interview with WRAL. “He was attacking another car, trying to run her off the road,” she alleged.

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