Two men reported to police Tuesday that they and two others had a gun pointed at them by a man who got out of his car while stopped in traffic.
The men reported the incident at about 8:25 p.m., about an hour after it happened, at the Bloomington Police Department headquarters, BPD Lt. John Kovach said. They said the two of them, along with an acquaintance who was giving them a ride and another man they don’t know, were driving around when they got lost and wound up at a dead end on South Grant Street.
There, two men sitting on a porch started a verbal altercation with them, they said. The men in the car pulled away, and one of them yelled an obscenity at the men on the porch.
The men from the porch then jumped in a black SUV and followed the car. Both got stuck in traffic on South Walnut Street. The driver of the SUV, whom the men described as a Hispanic man in a black cutoff T-shirt, got out of his car and pointed a gun at them.
Though the incident came in the same two-day span as two other incidents of drivers pointing guns in traffic, the incidents have no other similarities and do not appear to be connected.
