A 16-year-old from Juneau died early Monday after a shooting between vehicles in the Mendenhall Valley, police said.
The male teen, who was not identified, was shot by another driver after pointing a pellet or BB-style CO2 air rifle at him, according to the Juneau Police Department.
The other driver, a 24-year-old man from Juneau, was taken into custody and later released, police said.
The two did not appear to know each other, they said.
The adult driver called police to report that the teen had followed his 2001 GMC Jimmy from a Safeway store on the Glacier Highway to a roundabout where both made several passes, police said. The man said he pulled over and the teen, in a 2019 Volkswagen Jetta, pulled alongside, they said.
The man said the teen driver “was upset, was yelling at him, and had what looked like a rifle in his hands,” Deputy Chief Krag Campbell said in an updated release Monday.
The man said the teen pointed the rifle at him, at which point the man pulled out a pistol and shot him, Campbell wrote.
The teenage driver was pronounced dead at the scene, police said.
Additional information was not immediately available Monday afternoon.