Story Created:
Jul 21, 2008 at 4:50 PM CDT
Story Updated:
Jul 21, 2008 at 5:08 PM CDT
WICHITA, Kansas, July 21, 2008 – Wichita police are looking into two new cases of road rage over the weekend. They are also still looking for a suspect that murdered a teen-aged girl last month in a case of alleged road rage.
Police say a victim was shot in an incident of road rage Sunday morning near 37th and Broadway. They say it started as the victim waited at a red light. A pick-up pulled up and asked, “Que Pasa?” then opened fire.
“Pulled out a black automatic handgun and fired several times at the victim,” said Gordon Bassham with the Wichita Police Department. “Two of the bullets struck the victim; five of them hit the victim's truck.”
Another case of road rage occurred just hours later Sunday night when a man drove down a sidewalk in the 500 block of N. Broadway and hit two people. He is now in jail.
All of the victims in the weekend’s road rage cases survived, but 17-year-old Iesha Donaby was not as lucky.
Police say her murder on June 30th was also a case of road rage.
"She was very young and intelligent,” said Katherine Staten, Donaby’s aunt. “Had her whole life ahead of her, and then somebody just came along and stole it from her."
While Iesha was visiting from Arkansas late last month, she and her cousins were driving home when a car pulled out in front of them and then stopped in the middle of the road. Iesha’s cousin honked the horn and passed the stopped car. But the car followed them home and once there, fired several shots. Donaby was hit and killed.
"She came in and said she'd been hit in the throat,” Staten said. “Then she collapsed. She collapsed on the floor of my bedroom."
City authorities say they don’t keep statistics on road rage cases, but for the family of Iesha Donaby, the numbers don’t matter. All they know is their niece is dead, the victim of a senseless crime.