Two Moorhead men were arrested and charged with two counts of aggravated assault stemming from a small fender-bender on April 24.
Moorhead police arrested Joshua Conrod 28, 505 Washington St., and Terry Hodges Jr. 21, Apt. G-41, Moorhead Manor Apartments after a minor wreck spiraled into an altercation where the two fired shots at each other on two separate occasions on the same day.
Police Chief Fred Randle said the men filed aggravated assault charges against each other after one backed into the other’s vehicle, which prompted the first encounter near U.S. 82 and MS-3. At that time they declared that they were done with it “And they didn’t have no beef about it,” Randle said.
However, later that evening there was a resurgence of the gunfire between them and officers arrested the pair on additional aggravated assault charges.
“We’re still investigating and possibly two to three more people will be picked up,” Randle said on Friday.
The men appeared before Municipal Judge Kuykendall Murry on Thursday, and according to Randle, they were assigned a $200,000 bond.
Randle said Hodges was taken to the Sunflower County jail and Conrod was transported to the Leflore County facility, because he has charges pending against him there.
Randle said the incidents started at Moorhead Manor Apartments.
“Basically over a small fender-bender,” he said, “Nonsense, total nonsense, but we will not tolerate this type of behavior in Moorhead and we’re sending the message.”
