Jeffery Allen Dunman, 60, who lives east of De Soto, allegedly threatened a man with a gun during an apparent road-rage incident east of De Soto. He hit the man with a gun, pointed the gun at the man’s head and threatened to kill him, according to court documents.
Dunman has been charged with first-degree assault, a class B felony punishable by five to 15 years in prison; and armed criminal action, an unclassified felony that carries a penalty of three to 15 years in prison, court documents show.
He was arrested on Oct. 16, and as of Oct. 20, he was being held without bond at the Jefferson County Jail in Hillsboro, court records said.
According to the case’s probable-cause statement, Dunman was driving a Dodge Ram near the intersection of Wild Lake Lane and Wegmann Road at a high rate of speed when another driver yelled at Dunman to slow down. Dunman stopped the pickup he was driving and approached the other man, who was in his vehicle with a 12-year-old boy.
Dunman was allegedly holding a gun when he demanded the other man get out of the vehicle. When the other man refused, Dunman hit the other man in the chest with the gun’s muzzle then pointed the gun at the man’s head and threatened to shoot him before leaving, the report said.
The alleged victim recorded the encounter on his phone and provided screenshots to Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office deputies that allegedly showed Dunman holding the gun and walking toward the pickup, according to the report.
Dunman went to his home on Wild Creek Court, which is near the intersection, after the encounter at the intersection. He left the house before deputies arrived. However, deputies saw Dunman driving on Hwy. 67 and arrested him, the report said.
Dunman allegedly admitted to being involved in the altercation with the other man. Deputies also found the gun Dunman allegedly pointed at the other man in Dunman’s home, according to the report.
Dunman and the other man knew each other and had been involved in past incidents. Deputies arrested Dunman about 15 minutes after the apparent road-rage incident, the probable-cause statement said.