Road rage with ex-OSU football star

KETTERING, Ohio (WDTN) - A Kettering man is speaking out only to 2 NEWS about a road rage incident involving a 1960's Ohio State football star.

Richard Mattingly believes he's lucky to be alive after his encounter.

"I tried to say I'm sorry my truck is not functioning. I'm not trying to mess with you. I'm really not," said Mattingly. "The first opportunity I had to pull over I did. The guy had already fired shots and continued to fire shots as I was pulling off the road."

The road rage incident involved Jim Stillwagon , a player on the 1968 Ohio State national championship football team.

He appeared in court Monday on a felonious assault charge. He is out of jail on bond.

"I got out of my truck with my hands up like this and he was behind my truck and leveled it over the bed liner. He was about six feet away from me normal length of the bed and just let go. He was yelling you're dead, you're dead, the whole time," said Mattingly.

A bullet grazed his ear. "It grazed, it grazed. I can't hear out of my ear now. They stapled it shut in the helicopter ride because it was bleeding real bad."

Mattingly check himself out of the hospital. An MRI showed no sign of a bullet inside his head.

Stillwagon is claiming self defense.