A 17-year-old Kenmore boy was assaulted during a road rage incident on Sept. 9 in which the suspect brandished a pistol and punched the boy in the face, according to the King County Sheriff’s Office.

The boy was driving home from Lake Washington Institute of Technology in Kirkland when a man began following him and gesturing that the boy was driving too slow. The man passed the boy, cut in front of him and slowed down.

When the boy threw up his hands in frustration, the situation took a turn for the worst.

The boy said he then sped past the man and flipped him off near the intersection of Simonds Road and 100th Ave, at which point the man began following him closely until he finally pulled off in the 16900 block of Juanita Drive NE in Kenmore.

The boy got out of the car, according to the Sheriff’s report, at which point the man swerved in his direction and nearly hit him before also pulling off to the side of the road.

The report states the two drivers exchanged words, and the man held up a stainless steel revolver and said, “Do you really want to [expletive] with me?”

The two drivers shoved one another before the man punched the boy with a closed fist, got back into his vehicle and sped south on Juanita Drive NE.

The boy had some swelling to his left cheek. Neither the boy nor the witness, who saw the man swerve toward the boy and the ensuing fight, but didn’t see the handgun, were able to get the man’s license plate number.

The man is described as a 40-year-old white male, 6-feet-tall, weighing about 240 pounds with black hair and a full beard and driving a grey sedan.