The Cincinnati Enquirer is reporting that a 71-year-old preacher was convicted of aggravated menacing for pointing a gun and cursing at a female driver who cut him off in a road rage incident. Right about now, you might be wondering what happened to turn the other cheek?

Thomas Howell, the founder and minister at the First Commandment Church of the Living God in Walnut Hills, Ohio was convicted of first-degree misdemeanor by Hamilton County Municipal Judge Brad Greenberg.

Thomas Howell was driving his car from his College Hill home to his church the morning of June 23. He turned at the intersection of Burnet and Forest avenues when, he testified, a car cut him off.

The other car was driven by April Evans who testified the preacher pulled up alongside her car, pointed a gun at her, called her a name and asked if she knew who she was messing with before threatening to shoot. The cars then chased each other through parts Cincinnati.

“Every time I get in back of him, he would pull the gun out on me and point it towards me and whatever,” April Evans testified. “He said, ‘You don’t now who I am,’ called me another (name) and said, ‘I’ll shoot you.’ ”

Angry, she followed Howell’s car and when it stopped by his church, she ran into a hardware store across the street and called 911. When police arrived, Howell told them he had a gun - it was in a holster strapped to his hip - and he had a permit to carry it. Thomas Howell denied to police and at the trial that he ever pointed his gun at her. In fact, he said he never removed it from his holster that day.

Then how, the judge wondered, did April Evans know that Thomas Howell - a man she’d never met before - had a gun.

“I think that the only reason Ms. Evans would know that (Howell) had a gun in the vehicle is that he pointed it at her,” the judge said in finding Howell guilty.

Thomas Howell faces up to 180 days in jail when he is sentenced Sept. 4.

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