Shots Fired at the Wings Over North Georgia Airshow

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A man was arrested for discharging a firearm in public Saturday, October twenty-first at the Wings Over North Georgia Airshow in Rome, Georgia. Jerome Benesh, who is a seventy-three-year-old Canton resident was unnerved when he arrived at the air show an hour late; therefore, taking his aggression out in the form of road rage, reckless conduct, and discharging a firearm in a crowd. The air show is a very popular event that draws spectators from all over Georgia. Benesh arrived at the show as the crowds were leaving and he was not pleased with the influx of traffic as well as being late.  In a quote from the Rome News-Tribune, spectators say, “He was going in and out of traffic, firing off rounds.” Nobody was harmed during his sporadic firing, but it posed a safety issue. Once police were alerted of the disturbance, they began to pursue Benesh on Old Dalton Road, but he continued to Ga. 140, he continued to get away from the police but was eventually stopped and arrested at Ga. 53. In another quote from Rome Daily Tribune, the charges for Benesh are as following, “Two counts of aggravated assault, three counts of felony obstruction of an officer, cruelty to children in the first degree and two counts of possession of a firearm during the commission of a crime.” Benesh is also facing an array of misdemeanors.