Crime & Safety

Driver Fires Gun At Busy Intersection: 'Anybody Wanna Die Now?'

Video from the ordeal shows a woman pointing a handgun at other drivers and firing through her sunroof.

A woman is accused of brandishing a gun at the busy intersection of Fairfax Avenue and Olympic Boulevard while threatening other drivers.
A woman is accused of brandishing a gun at the busy intersection of Fairfax Avenue and Olympic Boulevard while threatening other drivers. (Google Maps)

LOS ANGELES, CA — The ordeal of navigating the intersection at Fairfax Avenue and Olympic Boulevard turned downright terrifying Tuesday when an angry driver pointed a gun out her window, shouting, “Anybody wanna die now? Anybody? Because I got good aim.”

The woman prompted a flood of 911 calls, and her outburst was captured on video. Police caught up to the woman after she allegedly pulled a gun a second time at the nearby intersection of Fairfax Avenue and Packard Street. Officers arrested 34-year-old Ashley Greenwade on suspicion of unlawful discharge of a firearm, said Los Angeles Police Department Officer William Cooper.

In the video published by TMZ, a woman can be seen loading bullets into a handgun as she waits at the intersection of Fairfax Avenue and Packard Street. She appears to point at a passing vehicle, shouting, “You want to die? Get out of my way.” Then she points the gun through her sunroof, firing into the air and shouts, “Move! Move!”

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With her crossover inched out into the intersection, she then pretends her fingers are a gun and pantomimes shooting, while shouting, “The cow jumped over the moon. I’m going to kill someone in the street.”

The video pulls back to reveal a line of cars blocking the intersection and an LAPD vehicle racing past with its sirens on.

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“Multiple people called 911,” said Cooper. “The calls came in around 5 p.m. Tuesday of a woman shooting a gun in the air.”

The incidents occurred at the two different intersections, and by 5:45, officers had taken the woman into custody. A handgun was retrieved at the scene, according to police. Greenwade remained in custody Wednesday in lieu of $35,000 bail, according to jail records.

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