‘Until the count of 3’: Road rage suspect follows through on threat to shoot man during confrontation, cops say

Police in Duluth, Georgia, arrest Josue Colon Matos after a road rage incident (WSB).

A road rage confrontation in Georgia led to a shooting after a suspect allegedly made good on his promise to open fire on the victim after counting to three.

Josue Colon Matos, 30, faces charges of aggravated assault, possession of a firearm during the commission of a crime and reckless driving. He sits in the Gwinnett County Jail without bond.

Local ABC affiliate WSB obtained body camera footage and showed a copy of the arrest affidavit that detailed the Dec. 23 incident in Duluth, some 30 miles northeast of Atlanta. Officers with the Duluth Police Department responded to a call around 8 p.m. about a person shot in the 3800 block of Pleasant Hill Road. An officer arrived to find the victim suffering from an “obvious gunshot wound to the left foot.”

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“I can’t believe he shot me … He was tailgating me,” the victim said in the body camera video. “He kept bothering me, and I got upset.”

Paramedics took him to the hospital for treatment.

The victim later told cops that after the man started tailgating him, he pulled into a parking lot and the suspect, later identified as Matos, followed him in. The victim exited out of his car and walked up to the suspect’s car. Per the affidavit, Matos got out and both men started arguing, That when Matos allegedly pulled out a gun and told the victim he had “until the count of three” to leave him alone.