He has pulled and tried to block this intersection this guys getting out of his car. Like is he gonna hurt like, what's going on? The guy in the car pulls a gun? Did she care about the person that got shot on the road? I was truly scared for my life HD Studio. This is unknown. Welcome back to the unnerved podcast, where normal people share their abnormal stories and if you enjoy true, stories of the strange and terrifying, then you're in the right place. I'm your host risk for key.
Have you ever reached your Breaking Point? Ain't the moment where the stress of everyday life reaches your limit and then one little thing, completely sets you off, this feeling is universal. You never know. When you might encounter someone who was a ticking Time Bomb, just waiting to explode in today's story. Chloe and Rachel encounter a man who had reached his Breaking Point A breaking point that almost led to murder.
This is their story. My name is Rachel, and I wasn't Indiana with my husband's family. So what up my husband sisters, she's one of the twins, Caitlyn she's getting married in July. And so, we were up there in Indiana for two weeks to help with all the wedding preparations and all that goes into it. All those girls. So Caitlin and Chloe, the twins. One of my friends Ronnie myself and Mama beings were all headed to the mall, for some last-minute shopping for the
wedding. And just to button up, a few things that had to be done. Last minute. Here's Chloe, we all decided to drive up like separately because we were going to divide and conquer after lunching kind of go do different things. There was an open house. We had to make an appearance at and then Caitlin. And my mom, we're going to go shopping In for some last-minute wedding things and then Rachel and her friend were going to
split ways. I wanted my sister to ride with me because I wanted as much time with her before she got married in. Last is as much as possible. So we're all leaving the house. It's a very Backcountry Road, it's very out of the way. All of us are a little bit in a hurry. We all were kind of rushing down the driveway a little bit. We're in three different cars. You have Molly banks in her car, clothing Caitlin. Chloe's car a little red car and then you have me and my friend
Ronnie and her car. And where the last cars a small beings, Chloe Caitlin me and Ronnie. Aw, thanks gets out on the road. Just fine. Chloe, pulls up real quick and stops quick because there's trees right up to the road. You kind of have to get the nose of your car into the road to see, she's a couple quickly to the road and stopped at that moment of black or very dark car. Sped by so quickly.
I guess because I thought they were going to wreck the car was so close and he was going so fast down a country road, which is like 45 miles per hour and he was going to lead 70. Thankfully, I did stop at the end of my driveway before I pulled out, but I think that they were a little bit startled by me, flying out our driveway, understandably style, that was definitely, that was on me, but I don't stop.
And it kind of scared me because he said by really fast, Like people shouldn't speed that fast on country roads because it's just dangerous. I was really startled by it, but I was kind of like, oh wow, okay, like he's going fast. He had rolled down his window and he flipped me off. Okay, you know, let's be civil here. Like I like that's fair, I probably scared it. He went by, he lay on his horn. He was clearly upset. But, you know, after a few seconds, we all were like, okay,
it's kind of nice. Like she took off on the road Ronnie and I got on the road. We're following. But as we go down this road, we noticed that he has fooled and tried to block this intersection. It's a part, were two roads, meet Molly things went left, the town. If you went straight, you could also get the challenge just a little further. He tried to block both the roads with his vehicle. He wasn't able to block all of it, but he was trying, I was going to turn last said he had seen.
That's where my mom had turned in. He blocked that rode off with his car and got out of his car. Our. That's why I was supposed to turn. Oh my gosh. This guy kicking off his car like is he gonna hurt like what's going on? My sister's like green at me like just go straight, go straight and I definitely was not going to attempt to turn there with a crazy person
getting out of their car. I just had this like that feeling that I was going to get shot and I didn't know, I didn't know I had that feeling, but I was like, I don't know why, but I feel like this guy would shoot us Chloe and Caitlin base, B. Possum thankfully and and the skies are throwing his hands up in the air, he looks irate. I remember, he has like a beard, he has like a cap and like sunglasses on, but I've never seen somebody looks so mad over something like that in my life.
Like I've grown up in Florida, road, rage is a thing, but I've never seen somebody try to block the road and then get out of their vehicle and stop your car like this guy did so much anger is like, pouring off of him. Well, Ronnie, my friend who was driving her car because all the he pop a tire, does he need help and start slowing down the vehicle and I'm screaming at her
like driver, go don't stop. I'm like looking in the cars there's any kind of weapon is. She's thinking, this guy, you know, needs something, but she does drive past move, pretty fast great. And we still could not catch up with a slogan Caitlin and then there was no service. So nobody could get ahold of each other. My sister. Well, Rachel and her friend were behind us. I would like, oh my gosh, I hope
they didn't turn their. I hope that they're coming straight to like it all kind of happened so fast, and I was truly terrified and I didn't even know if that was a valid stealing. I was kind of like, am I crazy like why am I like this? Why are you scared right now? I was truly scared for my life but I've had no idea that he was actually crazy person. I just was like that just was a really odd thing that happened. So I'm flying down our country
road. Now, at this point, cuz I'm afraid to help get it car and follow us. Like, he just acted that upset. So I finally get out onto the highway if I little car and I'm just Goin, like, 80 miles an hour. I was like, I hope someone pulls me over at this point because I just would feel a lot safer. So, what did I didn't know if he was coming behind me? I didn't know where Rachel and her friend were me and my sister. We finally make it more towards
like the Huntington area. And I was like, I don't think he's followed He would have caught up to us by now. It was definitely Wild. We met every week for lunch and my mom was like, you cannot find down our driveway like that, like that scares people and I was like, I know, I know, I shouldn't have done that, but all those kind of like shaken up about it. I didn't know that.
That was like a valid feeling all day, even when we were shopping, I just like, couldn't get that encounter out of my brain. So that had happened about two o'clock in the afternoon ish thinking and we didn't get home until 9:00 9:30. So it was a good long while. I'll after that, I had and I told my dad, I was like, I really want you to hide my car because it was bright red. You could definitely see it like a mile away as stuck out like a
sore thumb. Just afraid that this person would like he knows where I live. I just want to be safe. So my dad had my car and I drove my sister's car to work Monday morning and that had happened on a Saturday. It was about 7:00 in the morning. When my coworker got to work, the first thing she said to me, was where were you on Saturday? We just had kind of a girl's day before my sister got married. You know, then on Sunday. I didn't really do much.
Well, did you hear about the person that got shot on your road? Oh my gosh. No way like it had to be that guy. Like, that's the first thing I thought of. I was like, it has to be him. My coworker is immediately.
Like when I told her what had happened in the afternoon like it like 2:00 ish and she's like well this happened that for what did the car look like and all this stuff and so she's not working with her people kind of figure out like details and I called my mom immediately and was like Mom, someone got shot. On our road on Saturday. It's got to be the same person that we read into it. My mom was like, oh my gosh, wow. Like that's just crazy.
My adrenaline, even at work, my heart was racing all day. I just couldn't stop thinking about it. After hearing these details, Rachel called the police to report. What they encounter the day of the shooting, this helped the police piece together. What happened prior to the shooting and who was responsible? The man in the car was Matthew Cole. And the man, he shot was named Jeffrey, Warnock over the next few days. Rachel and Chloe learned more details of what happened after
their encounter. With Matthew, the guy had been reported seeing driving up and down there Road. It kind of seemed like he was looking to find Chloe and get Vengeance on her for freaking him out. While he was driving 70 miles, an hour on a 45 mile, an hour road. We had been spotted driving up and down that road and he swerved in front of or a
tractor. Swerve in front of him, guy gets out starts screaming at the guy in the tractor things can Spire to they're almost in like a fist fight and the guy in the car, pulls a gun shoots the guy, believe twice, and drives off, and leaves him for dead. This guy had to crawl to the nearest house, which he was plowing fields in Indiana. So, it's wide away. Like fields are huge. Without a house. In sight, he crawls his way to this house for help gets evacuated.
You know, are vax out the hospital. The person that he had shot worked for our neighbor. We were like, oh my gosh, like, is this person? Okay, thankfully, that person is a very alive. And well today, in doing just fine, the person did turn himself in his wife, encouraged him to turn himself in to the
authorities. They had him in custody and we had reached out little, Rachel had reached out to them, and after they'd gotten kind of everyone, in our family statements, a little bit, we had been asking Questions about how long was he going to be locked up? Like we were definitely like what if he comes back for Revenge, you just don't know if psychotic people like that. They questioned him about encountering a red car.
He immediately said that he wanted a lawyer like he would not talk about it. Police came to Chloe's workplace to get a written statement from her and they also brought photos of possible suspects. That could be linked to the crime. Matthew was one of them is really hard to take him out of a lineup, but I almost did but the police officer told he's like if you're not 100% sure.
I'd rather just not pay anybody at all and because you could tell it was, like, definitely debating between a couple people when it came to the trial and everything they had subpoenaed, he and my mom and Rachel and Rachel's friend to come and testify against him at the trial. And thankfully, we didn't end up having to actually go, but we did meet with the prosecutor and went over everything with him.
But thankfully, he did end up taking a plea, bargain and His wife did testify against him and told the court that after he had had an altercation with me. He came home, very Furious and angry and upset. And he acts when he had gotten his vein, and that's what he just left in his car again. So, his wife knew that there was something going on in that he could very potentially be dangerous to somebody.
So, thankfully, he didn't have a gun when I had encountered him, but for some reason, I just had this gut feeling that Definitely could have been me that day so I feel really horrible for the person that he encountered leader. But yeah, it was definitely definitely wild and I think he'll be in jail for I think eight years so definitely a good amount of time but yeah it was really really scary and I am so thankful that it wasn't any worse than just getting flipped
off on my road. I mean it could have been so much worse but it was really, it was really wild. I tried reaching out to Jeffrey on Facebook but I haven't heard anything back yet. Thankfully no one was fatally, harmed? That day the day when road rage escalated to violence on a quiet Country Road in Indiana Thanks
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