By Shawn Henry 
A 28-year-old man is behind bars in Clemson, South Carolina, after cops say he unleashed a hail of bullets during a brazen midday road rage showdown, peppering another driver’s windshield—luckily missing the guy inside. Chaos erupted just before noon Wednesday near the crossroads of U.S. Highway 76 and Old Stone Church Road, shattering the usual hum of traffic as panicked witnesses flooded 911 with reports of gunfire.
Here’s how it went down, according to investigators. Some poor schmuck was cruising northbound on U.S. 76 when a gray sedan swerved in front of him, cutting him off. Pissed off, he laid on the horn—big mistake. The sedan’s driver, clearly unhinged, veered into the median and stopped dead. The victim kept rolling toward a red light, thinking the worst was over. Wrong. That’s when the pops started—sharp, rapid cracks that made his stomach drop as spiderweb cracks bloomed across his windshield. Bullet holes. The shooter’s ride then crept up behind him before flooring it, vanishing south on Pendleton Road like a bat out of hell.
Miraculously unharmed, the victim tailed the car just long enough to snag the plate and a decent description before rendezvousing with cops at a gas station. Officers fanned out, hunting for the suspect’s wheels, and wouldn’t you know it: a match cruised past within minutes. Anderson County deputies got the alert, nailed the driver on SC Highway 187 near I-85, and bam—game over.
Turns out the guy behind the wheel was Charles Douglas Mace Jr., an Anderson County local who thought traffic violations were his biggest worry. Surprise. A search of his ride dug up an AR-style pistol, illegally modded to blast like a machine gun, complete with a shell catcher—because apparently, he didn’t want evidence littering the crime scene.
By Thursday, warrants dropped like an anvil: attempted murder, felony firearm possession, plus that shady machine gun charge. Now Mace rots in the Clemson lockup while detectives piece together how close this lunatic came to turning road rage into a body count. And you thought your commute was bad.
All parties are innocent unless proven guilty.
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