Road rage in the USA 1 with a firearm leads to two criminal charges against 68-year-old woman

Nancy Lee Leight, a 68-year-old resident of 5 Zoffinger Place in Palm Coast, faces two counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon following a road rage incident in which she allegedly brandished a weapon at a motorist that she had stopped.

On Tuesday morning, the alleged victim and his girlfriend were driving south on US 1 as they prepared to turn at the intersection with Palm Coast Parkway. Leight was in the left turn lane. She decided not to turn and continue straight, cutting off the other driver and forcing him to brake hard and swerve, throwing his girlfriend into the dashboard.

That made him angry. He drove to Leight on her right and sent her away. Leight, the alleged victim told Flagler County sheriff's deputies, “immediately brandished a gun from her lap area,” waved it in the air and “yelled while pointing the gun at him and his passenger.” The driver backed up and followed Leight's car from a distance while calling 911. He waited for help at Verdego, the nursery on U.S. 1.

The alleged victim's girlfriend confirmed the report to officers. “We thought we might get shot by her,” the woman, frightened and shaking, told officers. Leight told officers she had a gun in her purse under the driver's seat and took it out because she was afraid. She placed the gun on the seat next to her in case she needed protection, but said she never pointed it at anyone. Officers found the gun, a Sig P365 9mm, in Leight's Chrysler Town and Country van with one round in the chamber and a 10-round magazine.

Leigh was booked into the Flagler County Jail on two third-degree felony charges (her vehicle was towed by Roger's Towing). She spent 32 hours in jail and was released on $2,000 bail.