Video leads to arrest of Cary man who pulled gun in road rage incident

Ikeem McCullough and his fiancée were driving in two cars on Maynard Road on Friday when he said Adam Rountree began tailgating her and, at one point, ran her off the road.

McCullough said all three cars pulled into a Cary parking lot, where he pulled out his phone to get a picture of Rountree’s license plate.

As McCullough tried to take the photo, his fiancée took a video of Rountree holding a gun on McCullough.

"I came out and saw the gunman waving his gun around at the other guy, apparently over road rage," witness Jessica Medlin said. "[McCullough] had his hands in the air, trying to keep away from the gunman, obviously, but that's about it. There was yelling back and forth, but I couldn't really tell what they were saying."

In the video, Rountree can be heard telling the couple to continue filming him because "you're confronting me. I'm defending myself." McCullough, a student and restaurant manager, said Rountree called him racial slurs, but that was not caught on tape.

"It was a little scary. We obviously went back inside and locked the doors and waited for police to arrive," Medlin said. "I was waiting to hear gunfire, but luckily that didn't happen."

McCullough said he and his fiancée were shocked by what was happening and eventually jumped back into their cars and called 911. Calls from both the victims and the gunman released Monday paint vastly different pictures of the incident.

In a 911 call, the victims tell a dispatcher that they got behind Rountree's car in order to get his license plate number after he attempted to run them off the road.

"I got behind him to try to get his plate and then he got out of the car and pointed a gun at me," the caller said. "I'm standing right here in the parking lot, looking him straight in the eyes, but he swears I'm threatening him."

In another call, Rountree claims it was McCullough and his fiance, who tried to run him off the road before they pulled into the parking lot.

"They tried to run me off the road. I pulled into a public area, they pulled in behind me to block me. If he takes another step towards me, he threatened me with an AK-47, I will shoot him," Rountree tells the dispatcher.

Rountree, who says he has a concealed carry permit, tells the dispatcher that he pulled out his weapon after McCoullough and his wife "threatened me with an assault rifle" twice. However, Rountree also tells the dispatcher that he cannot see if McCollough is armed because his hands are in his pockets.

"He's still standing there on his phone, claiming I'm the one attacking him and he had the right to point a gun at me. I didn't even get out of my car until I saw him with a [expletive] gun," McCullough tells a dispatcher.

After seeing the video, Cary police charged Rountree, 33, of 112 Aborfield Ct., with misdemeanor assault by pointing a gun.

Cary police said the video was what led them to definitively filing the charge against Rountree.

An attorney for Rountree said that they will not comment on the incident at this time. Online, Rountree lists himself as a programmer with Health Decisions, a company in Durham. They have not confirmed his employment.