Four people are facing federal charges in connection with a road-rage incident in April in which gunshots were fired at a Tucson police officer driving an unmarked car, prosecutors say.
The April 20 incident started when the officer, in street clothes and in an unmarked police vehicle, followed a car he says sped past him on North Stone Avenue near West Fort Lowell Road, according to a news release Thursday from the US Attorney’s Office in Arizona.
The officer radioed the speeding car’s license plate to patrol officers.
At some point a gunman, later identified as Daniel Cardenas, 18, leaned out of the rear driver’s side window and shot at the unmarked police vehicle. The driver then made a u-turn and Cardenas fired more gunshots at the unmarked vehicle. additional shots at the unmarked officer’s vehicle, the release said.
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The officer was not injured.
Police lost sight of the vehicle after a short chase.
On Wednesday and three others were indicted in connection with the incident.
Hassan Omar Kassim, 19, Alexandra Brooke Wisdom, 19, Jaquvon Terell Poe, 20, and Cardenas face a variety of federal criminal charges in the indictment.
Cardenas is charged with using a firearm in furtherance of a violent crime; Kassim and Poe are charged with aiding and Abetting; and all three are charged with conspiracy. Wisdom was charged with accessory after the fact, the release said. After the short chase, the indictment says, Wisdom drove the car to abandon it, removing items from the vehicle that investigators later found in her apartment.
“It’s reassuring to know that those responsible for shooting at one of our officer, who was just doing his job, were given the highest priority,” Diana Duffy, TPD assistant chief, said in the release.
