Bodycam footage shows dramatic moments after Florida dads shot each other’s daughters

Newly launched bodycam footage reveals the dramatic moments after two fathers shot one another’s younger daughters on the aspect of a Florida freeway in a road-rage gunfight over the weekend.

The footage captures cops arriving after strangers William Hale, 35, and Frank Allison, 43, shot at one another’s autos with semi-automatic handguns throughout a high-speed “cat and mouse” chase late Saturday, police mentioned.

In the course of the shootout, Hale’s 5-year-old daughter was struck within the leg and Allison’s 14-year-old daughter was shot within the again, leaving her with a collapsed lung, Nassau County Sheriff Invoice Leeper mentioned Monday.

The bodycam footage, obtained by WJXT, reveals Allison and Hale within the wake of the capturing as responders are inclined to their daughters’ wounds.

The clip, a lot of which is muted or bleeped out, reveals Hale, shirtless, yelling and waving as police arrive and separate the fathers earlier than an officer checks on Allison’s daughter.

Frank Allison, 43, stands beside his wounded daughter (blurred) after police arrived.

William Joseph Hale, 35, was learn his Miranda rights earlier than he was arrested, bodycam footage reveals.

“Take a look at me, you’re OK,” a girl says to the woman.

“Ow, it hurts!” the teenager may be heard wailing within the clip.

“Do I've to journey in an ambulance?” the woman asks the officer via cries at one level, as Allison kneels beside her.

“Simply discuss to me,” an officer tells her after she moans loudly in ache.

Later, the officer walks over to Hale, who's learn his Miranda rights earlier than he’s escorted away by an officer.

In a separate cellphone video obtained by the outlet taken shortly after the capturing, an individual may be seen mendacity on the bottom as a number of individuals stand beside a number of autos on the aspect of the highway, together with the black Dodge Ram pickup truck and the grey Nissan Murano concerned within the incident.

Police acquired a number of reviews of individuals being shot on Freeway 1 close to Callahan in suburban Jacksonville, Leeper advised reporters.

Allison was charged with tried homicide after capturing Hale’s 5-year-old daughter within the road-rage capturing.

Hale was additionally charged with tried homicide after capturing Allison’s 14-year-old daughter within the gunfight.

Hale, from Georgia, and native man Allison have been “driving erratically” and brake-checking one another, Leeper mentioned.

At one level, Hale pulled his Dodge alongside the Nissan to begin shouting when Allison’s spouse flipped him the chook. In response, a water bottle was flung at her.

Allison then drew his handgun and fired a shot at Hale’s truck, placing Hale’s 5-year-old daughter in the fitting leg. Allison claimed he fired the shot “to get out of the scenario,” the sheriff mentioned.

Hale advised police he thought nothing of the “loud pop” till he heard a commotion from the backseat.

Hale then sped up and fired “all the things that was within the journal — seven or eight rounds,” at Allison’s automotive, the sheriff mentioned. One of many bullets went via the again of the automobile and struck Allison’s daughter.

One other pickup truck was concerned within the highway rage at one level however was not concerned within the capturing, Leeper mentioned.

Each males’s wives referred to as 911 through the wild battle and agreed to tug over to fulfill a deputy, court docket docs present.

Each males have been arrested and charged with second-degree tried homicide, the sheriff mentioned. They have been every launched hours in a while $150,000 bond, court docket data present.