The driver and passenger of a Jeep Wrangler that barreled by way of a team of Black Lives Subject protest in Colorado final 7 days and was shot at reported they were being just shed and hoping to get to a community airport just before they received accidentally caught in the melee.

The dashing automobile brought on just one female to drop off the road and some others to leap out of the way on a extend of freeway in Aurora, Colorado on July 25, in accordance to KDVR, a local Fox News affiliate in Denver.

The scene turned even a lot more chaotic immediately after the crowd started throwing rocks and projectiles at the Jeep, which crashed into a different motor vehicle. One particular man then opened fire, authorities stated.

The driver was not targeting Black Life Make a difference protesters, promises passenger Gregory Goodenough.

Goodenough was on his way to the airport to catch a flight to San Jose, California when the GPS directed them on to a highway that had been shut to accommodate the protest, he said.

‘We did observe that there were being Black Life Subject protesters on all sides of the street seeking to cease site visitors.’ stated Goodenough in a two-minute lengthy video clip posted to YouTube. ‘We then avoided any pedestrians in the roadways and ongoing on to the freeway. There was no police barricade that stopped us.”

Investigators are nonetheless probing how the Jeep obtained onto the freeway when accessibility roadways have been shut down.

Demonstrators surrounded the Jeep, throwing “projectiles,” utilizing bats “to damage the automobile,” and opening fire 7 periods, Goodenough said. Authorities reported two persons have been harm.