DAYTON — A Dayton woman is speaking out after a case of mistaken road rage that could have taken her and her 9-year-old nephew’s life.
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News Center 7′s Mike Campbell speaks with Jodi Puckett, the woman who was shot at, about the incident.
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The incident took place on Interstate-75, the day after Thanksgiving in 2023. Puckett still watches a three-second clip she recorded on her phone of the incident.
The clip shows a woman holding a gun out her driver’s side window, as the phone is dropped, there is a gunshot.
“Split second, I mean it could have it me,” Puckett said. “It could have hit a window and scared me enough to wreck the car.”
Investigators later found a bullet hole went through the trunk, back seat where her nephew usually sits and embedded in the seat belt pillar near her head.
“I’ve got a kid, he’s completely innocent. I didn’t do anything wrong to this woman, this woman mistook me for someone that did something wrong to her,” Puckett said.
Before the shooting, Puckett had spotted two cars driving erratically, appearing to chase each other, she said. One of the drivers started driving right on her bumper.
“I’m panicking on the phone with 911 and my nephew is developmentally delayed, so he doesn’t understand what’s going on,” Puckett said.
Puckett says she tried to wave the driver around, slowed down and tried to show the other driver she wasn’t involved. She decided to get in the far left lane, with a semi truck next to her, and the other driver drove between them.
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