A girl was arrested Monday in Florida for allegedly capturing motorists on an interstate freeway that she mentioned was God's command over a photo voltaic eclipse.
Taylon Nichelle Celestine, 22, shot at random drivers on Interstate 10 in Holmes County as she sped down the freeway in a purple Dodge Challenger with Georgia plates, in accordance with the Florida Freeway Patrol.
Inside 5 miles of coming into the freeway roughly 115 miles from the Alabama border, Celestine was grazing a motorist when she fired a number of photographs into the sufferer's window, police mentioned.
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The sufferer, who was additionally hit by glass from the damaged window, was capable of get away from Celestino by transferring to the facet of the freeway.
As she drove west, Celestine allegedly shot one other driver within the neck, who was subsequently taken to a close-by hospital the place the sufferer was handled for his accidents.
Responding to stories of an energetic shooter, Florida Freeway Patrol troopers mentioned they performed a site visitors cease round mile marker 96 the place they searched Celestin's automotive and located a 9mm handgun and an AR-15.
Celestine was taken into custody with out incident and transported to the Holmes County Jail, the place she was charged with tried homicide, assault with a lethal weapon and improper discharge of a firearm, in accordance with police.
Authorities later realized that when Celestine was trying out of a neighborhood resort, she informed employees that she was going to begin capturing as a result of God had informed her to in reference to Monday's photo voltaic eclipse.
The Florida Freeway Patrol Bureau of Investigations and Intelligence (BCII) is conducting an ongoing investigation.
Florida was not within the path of the entire eclipse on Monday, though folks within the state might see a partial eclipse. Specialists didn’t warn of an elevated danger of crime because of the eclipse, however warned that it might result in a rise in deadly automotive accidents, CBS Information stories.
Jon Brown is a reporter for The Christian Publish. Ship information tricks to jon.brown@christianpost.com
