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MESA, AZ (AZFamily) — An off-campus high school football coach is now in custody after shots were reportedly fired during a road rage situation in Mesa last month.
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Mesa police responded to reports of shots fired around 7 p.m. on Aug. 21 near Country Club Drive and Juanita Avenue.
When officers arrived, police said they found vehicle debris, two .40-caliber shell casings and a black metal drinking cup that was engraved with “Coach Curtis” in the road.
Witnesses reportedly told police they heard between two and six gunshots after a tan truck and a dark-colored sedan crashed.
Officers were able to retrieve video from a witness’s cell phone, a vehicle dash cam, cameras from three Mesa buses and a nearby Home Depot.
Police said the videos showed the sedan and truck crashing, then the drivers involved in an altercation in the road. They said the driver of the sedan appeared to point a handgun at the truck driver.
Police said the truck then drove away. The sedan appeared to follow the truck before crashing with an uninvolved vehicle.
The driver of the uninvolved vehicle exchanged information with the sedan driver, police said. In their initial investigation, officers were not able to find or identify the driver of the tan truck.
Then on Wednesday, officers found the driver of the sedan, identified as 30-year-old Natrell Curtis. While detectives were taking him into custody, Curtis allegedly had a handgun.
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In an interview with detectives, Curtis reportedly admitted to pulling in front of the truck and firing his gun at it. Police said he told them the gun in his possession when he was arrested was the same gun used in the road rage situation.
Curtis was booked on charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, disorderly conduct with a deadly weapon and unlawful discharge of a firearm.
Nathan Kleve, principal of Corona Del Sol High School in Tempe, sent a letter to families about the arrest of Curtis, who was an off-campus assistant defensive line coach for the Aztec varsity football team.
Kleve said Curtis’ arrest happened off campus, after school hours, in another city and did not involve school activities. Nonetheless, he said the Tempe Union High School District has terminated Curtis’ employment.
Curtis is the second Tempe Union employee at Corona Del Sol in legal trouble recently. Antony Cruz, who worked as a surveillance officer, allegedly gained access to cameras that were recording a room of young teen girls undressing at Corona del Sol High School. He’s facing seven counts of voyeurism and is being held on a $100,000 cash-only bond.
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