Man reports passengers waving guns from car windows

Police are trying to figure out who was waving guns out the windows of a car Sunday afternoon on the Bill Emerson Memorial Bridge.

A man driving across the bridge called police about 5:15 p.m. Sunday to report a vehicle behind him whose occupants were acting strangely, sticking their hands out the windows and waving what appeared to be handguns, said Darin Hickey, public information officer for the Cape Girardeau Police Department.

The caller said the car, described as an older, silver or gray Ford Taurus with a broken windshield, turned north on Sprigg Street, then west on William Street, where he lost sight of it, Hickey said.

It was not clear whether the guns were real or toys, because no one discharged them, Hickey said.

Pertinent address:

Missouri 74 and South Sprigg Street, Cape Girardeau, Mo.