Ross Sudbrook, charged with first and second degree assault, reckless endangerment and carrying a dangerous weapon with intent to injure in Anne Arundel County
Bizarre Fight On Route 3 In Crofton
CROFTON, Md. (WUSA) -- A passenger of a car who allegedly stabbed the driver of another car in an Anne Arundel County road rage incident is being charged with assault and other offenses.
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Ross Brandon Sudbrook of Baltimore, Md. is charged with first degree assault, second degree assault, reckless endangerment and carrying a dangerous weapon with intent to injure stemming from a traffic incident on Monday afternoon.
It all began around 4 p.m. Monday at the intersection of Riedel Road and Route 3 North in Crofton. Witnesses say a man and woman in a Ford Explorer, who had just gotten married, were playing around at a red light -- getting out of their car, running around it and then getting back in, exchanging seats.
Witnesses say the people in the car next to them, a PT Cruiser, didn't appreciate that, so they started making obscene gestures at the married couple. That's when things started getting ugly.
Rocky Coulter was driving nearby and says he saw the whole thing. "The Ford Explorer driver got out. He approached the PT Cruiser, the guy in the PT Cruiser opened the door, and reached out...and looked like he punched him," Coulter said.
In fact, police say the driver of the Explorer, a 44-year-old man, had been stabbed by a passenger in the PT Cruiser, later identified as 23-year-old Sudbrook. The driver was stabbed in the upper body, police said.
According to Coulter, despite bleeding profusely from the stab wound, the driver of the Explorer got back into his car and when he caught up to the PT Cruiser about a minute later on Route 3, started ramming the car from behind, sending the PT Cruiser into a ditch.
"The driver of the Explorer and the guy who stabbed him got out of the cars first. And the guy that did the stabbing approached the other guy and tried to fight him. And the guy that got stabbed just hit him and it just knocked him out for like a minute, he was down on the ground," Coulter says.
Police say the driver of the explorer was able to subdue the other man until police arrived at the scene.
The stabbing victim and Sudbrook were taken to Shock Trauma in Baltimore. The female driver of the PT Cruiser and two passengers in the Explorer were treated for non-life threatening injuries at a hospital. After he was treated and released, Sudbrook was charged.
An investigation is ongoing, but police say it does not appear that any of the people involved knew each other before the incident.