Road Rage Incident Leads to Arrest

HIGH SPRINGS ‒ A Middleburg man was arrested on Wednesday, Feb. 28, 22024, at 6:58 a.m. after a High Springs Police Department officer was alerted to a traveling road rage incident in High Springs.

The victim reported that the incident occurred on west U.S. Highway 27. She alleged that Matthew Raymond Shackleton pointed a black handgun at her out of the window as she passed him on the roadway. She alleged that he continued to follow her through the city before being pulled over in a felony traffic stop at the intersection of west U.S. 27 and northwest U.S. Highway 441.

The arrest report indicates that the handgun was located in the center console of the defendant’s vehicle. The defendant was placed under arrest for aggravated assault and transported to the Alachua County Jail without incident.

Shackleton has two nonviolent misdemeanor convictions.

Judge Thomas M. Jaworski placed Shackleton on $50,000 bond with a requirement that the defendant be fitted with a GPS monitor before release.

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