LEHIGH ACRES, Fla. (WINK) — A man accused of shooting and injuring two people during a road rage incident in Cape Coral was arrested in Lehigh Acres, according to police.
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Cape Coral police identified the suspect as Dominic Octavious Cichini.
Cape Coral Police
According to police, the incident began as a verbal dispute on Hancock Bridge Parkway on Oct. 22. A passenger in the suspect’s vehicle allegedly threw items at the victims’ car. After an item was thrown back, the driver allegedly displayed a handgun and fired multiple rounds into the victims’ vehicle before fleeing.
At approximately 5:59 p.m., officers responded to the 1000 block of Santa Barbara Boulevard South, where they found the driver of the victims’ vehicle with a gunshot wound to the chin and a passenger injured by broken glass, police said.
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On Oct. 23, detectives executed a residential search warrant and obtained additional evidence that led them to identify Cichini as the suspect, according to police.
Detectives obtained an arrest warrant through the State Attorney’s Office and worked with the U.S. Marshals Service Fugitive Task Force in Fort Myers to locate him. Cichini was arrested without incident during a traffic stop in Lehigh Acres, police said.
Cichini was booked into the Lee County Jail on three counts of attempted second-degree murder with a firearm, each a first-degree felony, and one count of possession of a firearm or ammunition by a convicted felon, a second-degree felony.