28-year-old arrested after road rage incident leads to alleged shots fired, Danville PD reports
DANVILLE, Va. (WFXR)– The Danville Police Department says a 28-year-old man was arrested after a vehicle was allegedly shot at during an incident deemed as road rage on Tuesday, July 2.
According to the police department, officers responded at around 4:00 p.m. on a report of shots fired in the area of the 700 block of Halifax Road. A short time later, a victim reported his vehicle had been allegedly shot into during what police consider a road rage incident.
Through information found at the scene, the suspect vehicle and the driver identified as 28-year-old Marlowe Malik Cobbs of Milton, NC, was located by the Caswell County sheriff’s office in North Carolina. He was extradited back to Virginia and has been charged with:
Shooting from a vehicle
Attempted aggravated malicious wounding
Use of a firearm in commission of a felony
Child endangerment
Shooting at an occupied vehicle
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Cobbs is currently being held in the Danville City Jail under no bond.
Anyone with information is asked to please contact the Danville Police Department by either calling patrol at 434-799-6510 option 4, investigations at 434-799-6508 option 1, and option 1 again, calling 911, contacting Crime Stoppers at 434-793-0000, approach any officer you see, through social media, via email crimetips@danvilleva.gov, or use our crime tips app CARE at www.p3tips.com/tipform.aspx?ID=818#.
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