Antsy driver allegedly threatens man with shotgun
Wednesday, June 30, 2010 9:38 am | Updated: 1:04 pm, Wed Jun 30, 2010.
By KIM SCHMIDT Hub Staff Writer
KEARNEY - An impatient driver faces two felonies after allegedly using a shotgun to threaten a man who was dropping off his wife at Kearney?s Wal-Mart Supercenter.
Sunday, the 62-year-old man stopped his vehicle at the north entrance to Wal-Mart at 5411 Second Avenue to let his wife, who was on crutches, out of the vehicle. Buffalo County Court records say as he was stopped a black Mercedes Benz was waiting behind the man in traffic, and the driver began continuously honking his horn.
The driver, later identified as Dryden A. Downey, 22, of Kearney got out of his vehicle, approached the older man and began yelling obscenities. Downey returned to his car, records say, pulled up beside the 62-year-old man?s vehicle pointed a sawed-off shotgun at him and said ?Hey old man are you ready to die??
Downey then left the parking lot. He was contacted within an hour of the incident and arrested and jailed. He posted 10 percent of $10,000 bond, or $1,000, and is free.
Downey is scheduled to appear in court in July. If convicted, and if he isn?t placed on probation, Downey faces one to 50 years in prison for the weapons charge and up to five years in prison for the threat.
