A girl is behind bars after allegedly pulling a gun on one other driver throughout a highway rage incident sparked by the opposite driver's "vaccinated" bumper sticker.

The incident occurred this previous Sunday, in keeping with a police report from the Albuquerque Police Division (APD), when Christina Blair, 33, allegedly started honking and yelling at fellow driver Gabriel Chavez because the pair have been touring down the highway. Police stated that the difficulty started when Blair turned angered by a bumper sticker on Chavez's car indicating that he was vaccinated.

Chavez tried to inform Blair to drive round him, the police report stated, however she allegedly continued to turn into upset and adopted Chavez by means of visitors. Police stated that, when stopped at a purple gentle, "Christina threw one thing at [Chavez's] car," which Blair later instructed police was an empty water bottle.

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A New Mexico girl has been arrested and charged with felony assault with a lethal weapon after she allegedly pulled a gun on a fellow driver throughout a highway rage incident. The mayhem reportedly began after the lady turned indignant at one other driver's pro-vaccine bumper sticker. iStock/Getty

Because the incident escalated, police say that Chavez "tried to drive away from the scenario," however ended up unintentionally backing up into Blair's automobile. This triggered Chavez to drag into a close-by parking zone to try to trade insurance coverage info.

At this level, police stated, an "extraordinarily irate" Blair then "reached into her car and retrieved a handgun." Chavez then instructed police that he noticed Blair "rack" the gun—that means that she pulled the slide of the firearm all the way in which again to chamber a spherical. It was at this level police stated that Chavez backed away and known as 911.

The primary officer to make contact stated that Chavez confirmed him a video by which "you possibly can clearly see Christina attain into her car and produce a weapon...it additionally appears to be like like Christina does run the slide and make the gun prepared for reside fireplace."

The video captured Blair's license plate quantity, permitting APD officers to trace her to her home, the place the police report says Blair admitted the incident started as a result of she honked at Chavez after seeing his bumper sticker. Police stated that Blair additionally admitted to throwing a water bottle at Chavez's automobile, in addition to admitting to having a gun in her hand as a result of Chavez "was scaring her and continued to shut distance on her."

"All through the course of my investigation, I used to be in a position to decide that Christina did have a possibility to go away the world in her car," the police report stated. "However as an alternative overtly reached into her car and retrieving a handgun threatening Gabriel with the firearm."

Blair, who instructed police that she works at an Albuquerque Dodge dealership as a salesman, was finally arrested on a felony cost of assault with an aggravated weapon and booked into the native county jail. She has a court docket listening to Thursday throughout which prosecutors will argue for her further detention, with a court docket doc saying: "No launch situations will fairly shield the protection of every other particular person or the group."

Blair was beforehand convicted of aggravated assault and tampering with proof in 2007, in keeping with prosecutors.

Newsweek has reached out to the APD for remark.