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Richard Zahn first pulled a handgun and then a rifle — and was later found with eight high-capacity magazines of ammo in a bag behind his car seat, city police told CLIFFVIEW PILOT shortly after his Feb. 22 arrest.
The 31-year-old victim told police he was backing out of his Prospect Avenue driveway near Hackensack University Medical Center when his car nearly collided with one driven by Zahn, 56, of Hubert, N.C.
“Each apparently gave each other the finger,” Detective Capt. Thomas Salcedo told CLIFFVIEW PILOT at the time. “But it didn’t stop there.”
Zahn got of his car, threatening to shoot the couple, the captain said.
“The victim said words to the effect of ‘What have you got guns in your car?’ ” Salcedo said.
Zahn first retrieved a Beretta 1934 .380 caliber handgun and pointed it at him, the captain said. He then went back and got a Ruger Ranch 5.56-caliber rifle, Salcedo said.
The victim took off and called police, who found Zahn still in the area. He had apparently come from North Carolina to visit a relative in a nearby medical facility, Salcedo said.
Besides the firearms, officers found eight high-capacity magazines of various calibers in a bag behind the driver’s seat, he said.
“He came loaded for bear,” Salcedo said.
The guns are “all registered in North Carolina,” he added. “But this isn’t North Carolina.”
Zahn remains free on $75,000 bail, reduced from an original $500,000.
The indictment returned this week charges him with threatening to kill the alleged victim, pointing a firearm under circumstances “manifesting extreme indifference to human life,” illegally possessing a large capacity ammo magazine and four illegal weapons counts — two for each gun.
MUGSHOT: Courtesy BERGEN COUNTY SHERIFF
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