A former amazon driver has been held for trial for a shooting in February

A former Amazon driver has been held for demo on attempted murder and relevant expenses for an alleged street rage incident that resulted in an additional driver getting shot in the tummy.

Anthony Jones, 38, of Philadelphia, is also struggling with fees of aggravated assault, possessing an instrument of criminal offense and firearms not to be carried with out a license for the Feb. 27 taking pictures close to the intersection of Springfield Road and Oak Avenue.

Magisterial District Decide Kelly A. Micozzie-Aguirre listened to from the alleged sufferer in the course of a brief hearing past week.

The 58-calendar year-aged person, who was the only man or woman to testify, informed Very first Assistant District Lawyer Tanner Rouse that he was approaching the intersection on Oak Avenue when he noticed an Amazon delivery truck pulled above on the ideal aspect of the street. As the man tried to move, he clipped the van’s mirror when a auto coming in the other path pressured him to the right, he stated.

The guy pulled in excess of about a hundred toes further more on and the Amazon truck stopped about 30 feet at the rear of him, he stated. The truck’s driver, who he identified in courtroom as Jones, approached and informed him, “Don’t go nowhere, mother—,” the man mentioned.

Jones went again to his truck as a female strolling her canine arrived up and recognized herself as a witness, the alleged sufferer said. The guy mentioned he was arguing with the lady who was also telling him not to generate off when Jones exited the Amazon truck again, then returned to the car.

The alleged victim told defense lawyer Mary Beth Welch that he could not recall Jones expressing nearly anything to him when he exited the truck the next time due to the fact he was distracted by the argument with the lady.

The alleged victim claimed he then went to the Amazon truck window to display Jones his insurance policy facts on his phone. That was when Jones allegedly kicked open up the door of his truck and exited with a handgun, the man said.

“He approached me and all I can try to remember is I was seeking to grab the gun, for the reason that I had taken martial arts lessons,” he reported. “I was seeking to seize the gun and bend it away from him, but he experienced too significantly momentum and he shoved it up into my abdomen.”

The alleged sufferer claimed he did not hear a gunshot, but it felt like he experienced been strike with a bean bag spherical that drove him to the ground.

“I did not notice I had been shot at 1st,” he reported. “I acquired up and headed back to my truck, and then I recognized blood trickling onto my phone. I rolled out of my truck on to the floor and started off screaming, ‘Somebody connect with 911!’”

The man explained Jones had begun driving away as he designed his way again to the truck and he did not see him yet again. The next man or woman he observed was a man sporting an orange vest who put a compress on his stomach, and who he assumed was an crisis health-related technician.

Jones was arrested March 14 at a relative’s property in Philadelphia by U.S. Marshals and users of the Clifton Heights and Philadelphia police departments.

The alleged sufferer stated he later realized that the bullet pierced his stomach, nicked his pancreas, and went via his large intestine and still left lung ahead of exiting his chest.

He claimed he was in the medical center 29 days, for the duration of which he had to undergo many surgical procedures.

Rouse and Welch stipulated that Jones was not accredited to have a firearm. Welch had no argument at the listening to and Micozzie-Aguirre set formal arraignment for May 11. Jones stays in custody at the county jail in Concord in lieu of 10% of $1 million bail.