SHELBY COUNTY, Tenn. – – A nurse practitioner is facing a serious charge but it has nothing to do with the medical field. Investigators say Errol Hook committed an act of road age when he pointed a gun at another driver.
That driver talked with WREG but doesn’t want to be identified.
“Very shaken up about it,” he said.
He says he was driving down Hwy 64 near Brunswick Rd Wednesday afternoon when Hook tried to force his way over into the next lane.
“I’m sitting in the right lane. He crossed the line, tried to just really push me off the road,” the other driver said. “When I wouldn’t budge, wouldn’t stop, I kept going, that’s when he threw the coffee on my truck.”
The man says he called 911 and followed Hook to the area of I-40 and Canada Rd while keeping dispatchers updated on where he was.
“I was going to go past the guy and leave everything alone because I called the police,” the man said. “When I came beside him I was in the left lane, he was in the right lane. He pointed a gun at me.”
Investigators say both men spotted a nearby sheriff’s deputy and pulled over to tell that officer their accounts of what happened.
“I said hey, that guy pulled a gun on me,” the man said.
Deputies say they found three guns in Hook’s vehicle. They arrested the 50-year-old and charged him with aggravated assault. Hook allegedly told investigators he did throw coffee at the other driver but never pointed a gun at him.
“I think it’s real petty for a guy in his field to even try to act out that way,” the other driver said.
Hook bonded out of jail. So, WREG went to the Millington address listed for him in court records but no one came to the door when we knocked.
“I feel like if I would have never called (911) then who knows what he would have did to the next guy that pulled out in front of him,” the other driver said.
Hook is due in court April 5th.
