GREENSBORO, NC – A North Carolina man is facing charges after authorities say he threatened to kill a woman and her 3-year-old son during a road rage incident that unfolded on Interstate 85 and was partially captured on video. The encounter, which began with a traffic dispute, quickly escalated into repeated verbal threats that police say caused the victim to fear for her life.
Christopher John Walters, 48, has been charged with misdemeanor communicating threats, according to court records reviewed by Law&Crime. The incident occurred July 31, when a woman driving with her young child said Walters cut her off, prompting her to honk her horn. That interaction, she told local outlet WFMY, appeared to trigger the confrontation.
Video evidence and reported threats
In video that later circulated online, Walters is seen speeding alongside the woman’s vehicle, appearing to shout threats. According to police, the suspect “appears to have made multiple verbal threats to a Greensboro woman.” In the footage, the man can be heard yelling, “You are going to die,” and “I could kill you.”
Authorities said those statements were repeated multiple times. A warrant in the case states the defendant made each threat three times and that “the threat was made in a manner and under circumstances which would cause reasonable person to believe that the threat was likely to be carried out and the person threatened believed that the threat would be carried out.”
The woman called 911 following the incident, prompting a report by the Greensboro Police Department.
Separate arrest tied to assault allegation
By the time investigators followed up, Walters was already in custody in a separate case. The Greensboro Police Department said he had been arrested Thursday on a charge of assault of a female in High Point.
In that incident, authorities allege Walters pushed a woman “into a dresser, causing a bruise to her arm.” He was booked into the High Point Jail.
Walters is scheduled to appear in court on Sept. 8 in connection with the charges.
