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UPDATE: victim talks about dodging bullets on bike ride

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By Kristen Johnson, Multimedia Journalist/ Weekend Anchor - bio | email
PLYMOUTH COUNTY, Iowa (KTIV) -

A morning bike ride turns into a scary situation for two Woodbury County cyclists. 

Tony Pierce and John Pecaut say they were riding along Highway 12, a couple of miles north of Stone State Park, when an SUV pulled up, slowed down, and the people inside started shooting bullets above their heads.

The two men took cover in a ditch and Pecaut called 911.

"I don't think I would have called 9-11, that wouldn't have been my response.  My response would have been  just to get the heck out of the way and go hide somewhere until this is all over with," said Pierce.

Pierce says he's glad his friend did because when the Plymouth County Sheriff's Department and Sioux City Police Department arrived they found the SUV and two men inside.

Police say they took off for a forest near the Big Sioux River.  However, they were caught, along with a weapon.

Twenty-two-year-old Terry Lee Oliver Junior of Sioux City, was arrested on attempted murder charges.  The other person in the SUV, 20-year old Cesar Gonzalez is being held as a material witness in the Plymouth County jail.

Pierce and Pecaut both say the don't know the men who shot at them.

Pierce says the quick response from police proved to him the streets are safe, and now he plans to ride his bike even more.

Neither of the men were hurt.

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