A naked man armed with a gun caused chaos on a stretch of Interstate 80 in Wyoming, ending with at least three people injured and the suspect arrested, police said.
Armando Cano, 26, of Moroni, Utah, was arrested Wednesday night on suspicion of attacking several motorists over miles of desolate highway between Rawlins and Green River, according to the Wyoming Highway Patrol.
During the far-flung spree, shots were fired, vehicles were intentionally rammed, one person was cut with shattered glass and another was stabbed in the leg.
Highway patrol dispatchers started getting calls about 9 p.m. Wednesday about a white car that had been “swerving all over the highway and had run off the road.”
The driver, later identified as Cano, got out of the car and ran across the highway several times in front of approaching vehicles. Dispatchers then started fielding reports that a naked man was standing in the roadway.
Before troopers could arrive, a nude Cano got into a fight with a motorist who had stopped. Cano then jumped into his own car and started driving east on I-80.
Seventeen miles away, Cano rammed into a vehicle carrying a Cheyenne couple. When both vehicles stopped, Cano, still naked, attempted to get into their vehicle.
Meanwhile, a motorist who saw the crash stopped to help. Cano forced his way into her vehicle and “found a 9mm semi-automatic handgun in the female’s vehicle and began firing it from inside the vehicle out the closed window.”
The woman fled the vehicle on foot.
The Cheyenne couple tried to drive away from the chaotic scene, but Cano jumped back into his car and rammed the couple’s vehicle again, police said.
Still armed, Cano then drove his car about 3 miles down the highway, stopped, got out and lay naked in the road.
He then got up and threw an unknown object at a passing vehicle, shattering the driver-side window. As a passer-by tried to shepherd Cano off the highway, the suspect stabbed the person in the leg.
Cano, now armed with a pipe, began breaking out windows of vehicles until a trooper and truck drivers wrestled him to the ground.
