Bail set at $50K for man accused of threatening drivers with airsoft pistol in Glenoma area 

By Emily Fitzgerald / emily@chronline.com 
Posted 11/25/24

A man who allegedly threatened two drivers with a realistic-looking airsoft pistol during separate road rage incidents on Oct. 28 and Nov. 8 in the Glenoma area was arrested on Sunday. 

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Bail set at $50K for man accused of threatening drivers with airsoft pistol in Glenoma area 

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A man who allegedly threatened two drivers with a realistic-looking airsoft pistol during separate road rage incidents on Oct. 28 and Nov. 8 in the Glenoma area was arrested on Sunday. 

David William F. Stitz, 19, of Glenoma, was booked into the Lewis County Jail at 10:45 p.m. on Nov. 24, according to jail records, and was charged Monday, Nov. 25, with two counts each of felony harassment and unlawful display of a weapon. 

Bail is set at $50,000. 

Stitz is accused of pointing a black semi-automatic pistol at a man who approached him for hitting his car at the intersection of Glenoma Road and U.S. Highway 12 in the Glenoma area on Oct. 28, according to court documents. 

The victim reported he was stopped at the intersection when a silver Volkswagen hatchback, which has since been identified as Stitz’s vehicle, approached him at a high rate of speed and possibly struck his vehicle before driving around him and into the intersection, narrowly avoiding a collision with another vehicle as it crossed Highway 12 toward Forest Creek Road. 

The victim said he followed the Volkswagen to contact the driver about the collision. He reportedly stopped and got out of his vehicle when the Volkswagen pulled into a business parking lot in the 150 block of Frost Creek Road in Glenoma. 

When the victim got out of his vehicle and approached the Volkswagen, the driver of the Volkswagen, who has since been identified as Stitz, allegedly “came out with a black pistol and pointed it at (the victim) and demanded he leave, or he would be shot,” according to charging documents. 

The victim told police that “it scared the hell out of him” and reported that he immediately left. 

Deputies with the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office responded to the incident but were unable to locate the suspect on Oct. 28. He was identified by the victim via photo montage as Stitz on Nov. 1, according to court documents. 

Stitz was allegedly involved in a second unlawful display of a firearm incident on Nov. 8, during which he was detained by a Washington State Patrol trooper. 

The trooper reported he stopped Stitz following the complaint and asked Stitz if he had a firearm, according to court documents. Stitz reportedly showed the trooper that he had a “realistic-looking airsoft gun in the trunk of his vehicle,” but he denied taking the gun out of his vehicle or displaying it. 

“As the complainant had yet to be contacted, Stitz was allowed to leave the scene,” according to court documents. 



Deputies later contacted the two complainants, who advised that they had been driving a utility ATV in the 600 block of Cannon Road when a vehicle, later identified as Stitz’s, reportedly “came flying up behind them” at 80 to 90 mph, requiring them to pull off the roadway to avoid being struck. 

“It passed them and nearly missed the oncoming traffic,” according to court documents. 

The two occupants of the ATV said they followed the vehicle to a nearby gas station, where they contacted Stitz at a gas pump. 

One of the parties said “he talked to the driver by the gas pump, saying something to the effect of he is either going to get hurt or he is going to kill someone driving in that manner,” according to court documents.
Stitz allegedly spoke to the other occupant of the ATV, a woman, “said something to (her) about watching her mouth” then allegedly “opened his trunk and pulled out a pistol” and “appeared to rack it with the intent to be threatening,” according to court documents. 

The two occupants of the ATV reported they “were concerned and drove off.” 

Surveillance footage from the gas station reportedly shows Stitz open the trunk of his vehicle and produce what appeared to be a pistol. He reportedly “motioned the weapon as if he was racking the side” and “did not appear to point the weapon directly at (the ATV occupants),” according to court documents. 

Stitz was arrested Nov. 24 after a Morton Police Department officer contacted him in relation to a different investigation, charges for which hadn’t been filed as of Monday afternoon. 

“Mr. Stitz, we believe, is a danger to the community,” Deputy Prosecutor Scott Jackson said during Stitz’s preliminary hearing in Lewis County Superior Court on Monday, citing the similarity between the two alleged incidents in this case and referencing a referral the Lewis County Prosecutor’s Office has received for a vehicular assault charge against Stitz. 

“I am not considering uncharged referrals but the facts here show that Stitz is not paying attention to the rules of the road, he is not following the law, and he is a danger to the community,” Judge James Lawler said Monday, granting the prosecution’s request for $50,000 bail. 

Arraignment is scheduled for Thursday, Dec. 5.