Posted October 01, 2018 07:33am
(KAIR)--One man is arrested, and another hospitalized, following what Atchison police are calling a Sunday night road rage incident.
According to Atchison Police Chief Mike Wilson, 59-year-old Anthony Brayshaw, of Atchison, was taken into custody on charges for aggravated battery, aggravated assault, possession of methamphetamine and drug paraphernalia, criminal damage to property, reckless driving, and aggravated endangering a child.
Following his arrest, Brayshaw was booked into the Atchison County Jail.
The charges follow what Wilson calls a road rage incident that began on U.S. Highway 59, near Atchison's 14th Street, around 9:00 Sunday night. “Actually, between 10th and 14th Streets,” Wilson told MSC News, adding that it was in that area that Brayshaw, and another driver, got out of their vehicles, leading to a physical altercation. “[Brayshaw] threatened the 19-year-old male with a small machete. It was at that point that the 19-year-old grabbed ahold of the machete and received severe cuts to his hand.”
Both men returned to their vehicles and a chase began, ending when both drivers wrecked near Atchison's Bellevue Country Club. “They drove through the northwest area of the city, and they were, at that point, near the Bellevue Golf Course, where both vehicles left the roadway, did some damage...both vehicles, because of colliding with each other, became disabled in that area. Officers arrived on the scene, with the two still there, Both were actually transported to the hospital for examination. [Brayshaw] was soon released from the hospital and we took him into custody. The 19-year-old was transported to the hospital for severe injuries to his hand.”
Wilson says the teen has not yet been arrested. “Once he's released from the hospital, he, too, faces a number of charges.”
The 19-year-old's name remains unreleased pending his being taken into custody.