An Army sergeant based at Fort Knox faces a felony assault charge after a road rage incident in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, earlier this year, according to local station WAVE 3. The sergeant, Kai, says she acted in self defense.
Kai shared her account on Facebook. She said she was driving home when a woman behind her began driving aggressively, honking and pulling alongside her car. According to Kai, the woman rolled down her window and shouted racial insults at her. Kai said the woman then bumped her car and she pulled into a gas station.
Kai told WAVE 3 that surveillance video from the store shows her pulling in with the other woman right behind her. She said she sat in her car with the door open while on the phone with 911 when the woman walked up and attacked her. “The operator can hear you,” she recalled telling the woman.
Kai said she then grabbed a knife she had received as a military honor and stabbed the woman in the leg. She said police arrived while she was still on the line with dispatchers, and that officers assumed she was the aggressor and would not listen to her side. Those are Kai’s claims, and the other woman has not been publicly identified or quoted in the coverage Baller Alert saw.
A spokesperson for the Elizabethtown Police Department said the investigation is finished and the department would not comment on Kai’s allegations of mistreatment. It is now up to a grand jury to decide whether to indict her. Kai has been suspended from her job at Fort Knox while the case is pending, and she could also face military charges.
Fort Knox Lt. Col. Alicia Masson said the post is standing by its soldier, calling her “a trusted leader” and saying the situation contradicts her performance and character. Kai said she also filed a complaint against the woman, but that authorities have not acted on it yet.
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