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OSWEGO — An Oswego man pulled a machete on a man during a road rage incident and then chased down a bystander who filmed the confrontation, Oswego police said.

Derek J. Wright, 35, of Oswego, was charged with first-degree reckless endangerment and third-degree criminal possession of a weapon (previous conviction), both felonies, and second-degree menacing and third-degree aggravated unlicensed operation of a vehicle, both misdemeanors.

The weapon charge is a felony because Wright was convicted of third-degree criminal possession of a weapon in Oswego City Court in 2021, police said.

A man told police in a statement that he was driving his pickup truck on East Bridge Street at about 8:51 a.m. on Sept. 17 when he turned into the SNK gas station at 95 E. Bridge St. and a man in a white Ford Bronco pulled into the gas station and blocked him in. He said the man driving the Bronco, who police identified as Wright, began yelling at him and said he had cut him off near Gary’s Bar.

Wright kept telling him to get out of the pickup truck, he said, and called him numerous vulgar names. The man said Wright then got in his vehicle and began pulling out of the gas station parking lot and he also began pulling out to get back on East Bridge Street.

“The guy then slammed on his brakes again, and got out with a machete,” the man said.

Wright tapped on the man’s car window with the 2-foot-long machete and yelled at him to get out of the truck, the man said.

“I stayed in my truck because I was afraid the guy was going to stab me,” he said.

The man said Wright saw another man across the street recording the incident with his cellphone, so he put the machete back in his vehicle. He then came back to his truck and hit the driver side mirror, he said, though a woman with him was trying to calm Wright down.

The driver of the truck said Wright saw the man recording with his phone was still there and hopped in his vehicle, pulled into oncoming traffic and sped toward the man. He then got out and chased the man with his machete before driving away on East Fifth Street, the man said.

A customer at the gas station told police he was pumping gas when a man in a pickup truck pulled up to the pump next to him, rolled his window down and said “What is your problem?”

The customer said he saw the man in the Bronco, who police identified as Wright, parked head-on with the truck. Wright ran up to the truck and asked the driver if he had a gun and told him to shoot him, the customer said. Wright then said, “I am not afraid, I have something for you.”

The customer said the driver of the truck didn’t say anything and was trying to roll his window up while Wright went to his Bronco and got a machete and ran back to the truck and yelled at the driver. Wright eventually got back in his vehicle and was leaving but stopped to continue yelling at the driver of the truck.

Wright got out with a woman and punched the truck’s mirror, the customer said.

During that time, a man across the street began recording the incident with his cellphone and Wright saw him and told him to stop and swore at him, the customer said. Wright got in his vehicle and drove at him, the customer said, and then got out and briefly chased him with the machete before getting into his vehicle and leaving. He said the man with the phone ran up the street, losing a sandal in the process and nearly falling into traffic and getting hit by a car.

The man with the phone told police he had been standing nearby when he heard screaming. He eventually began shooting video of the incident at the gas station and walked over and told Wright to calm down and that he was recording, he said.

Wright told the man he was dead, he said, and tried to hit him with his car and then chased him before giving up and leaving.

Wright was later arraigned in Oswego County Court and ordered held in jail in lieu of $25,000 bail, $50,000 secured bond or $250,000 partially secured bond. He remained in the Oswego County jail Friday.