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La Grange couple charged in Carteret road rage incident

A La Grange couple was charged Monday in connection with a violent road rage incident that happened Sunday afternoon off U.S. Highway 70 in Carteret County.

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LA GRANGE, N.C. — A man and woman from La Grange were charged Monday afternoon in connection with a violent road rage incident that happened Sunday afternoon off U.S. Highway 70 in Carteret County. 

According to investigators, Bradley Russell Turner fired several shots into a pickup truck after he was beaten by two men about 1 p.m. Video released by investigators showed Russell asking the driver of a pickup truck why he ran him off the road before the pickup truck driver and his passenger threw him to the ground. 

Christy Marie Turner provided Bradley Turner with the gun from inside the SUV during the altercation. 

No one was seriously injured in the incident. 

Bradley Turner, of 3432 Institute Road, is charged with discharging a weapon into occupied property, two counts of assault by pointing a gun, assault and battery, going armed to the terror of the public and injury to personal property.  He received a $37,500 bond. 

Christy Marie Turner, also of Institute Road, was charged with two counts of assault by pointing a gun. She received a $1,000 bond. No other information was immediately available.

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