HARRIS COUNTY, Texas – Jurors have decided the punishment for a former Harris County attorney who found herself in the center of a violent case of road rage.
Susan Sciacca was found guilty Thursday of aggravated assault of a deadly weapon. She was arrested in January 2014 after pullng a gun on another driver she says cut her off.
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Tomball police say Johnny Leazer accidentally cut Sciacca off near Business 249 and Holderrieth, and that triggered a series of violent events.
Leazer called 911 and reported Sciacca began following and "brake-checking" in front of him.
"As soon as I looked in my mirror to go over, she kind of slammed on her brakes, and then she went around me and jumped around to the far left-hand lane, swerved again, slammed on her brakes," Leazer told the 911 dispatcher.
Police say Leazer pulled into a bank parking lot a few minutes later with Sciacca right behind.
Seconds later, the assistant county attorney called 911 herself to tell police she pulled her gun because she claimed she was followed and felt in fear for her life.
Sciacca was given two years probation for the crime.
"I've got a man out here screaming at me at the First Bank, he cut me off coming down the road. He got out of his car and I pulled my gun on him. I have a concealed handgun license; I'm a Harris County prosecutor," Sciacca said on the call.
But when police arrived and started speaking with both parties, Sciacca was arrested because officers say bank security cameras showed she actually followed Leazer into the parking lot and had no right to pull out her gun.
Sciacca claimed she feared for her life, but the jury also did not believe her story.