KINGMAN – Trial has begun in a Bullhead City road rage case after a Mohave County Superior Court jury was selected and seated in Kingman Monday. Michael Eisen, 48, Bullhead City, faces two aggravated assault charges and one count of disorderly conduct involving a weapon for an April 29, 2025 incident on Hancock Road.
Deputy County Attorney James Schoppmann told the jury that the defendant picked up his teenage son at Mohave High School and was driving westbound on Hancock Road when the encounter with a female motorcyclist began. Schoppmann said Eisen pointed a handgun across the interior of his Qx60 and past the face of his son in the direction of the 48-year-old woman before swerving and sideswiping her motorcycle before it crashed between Lakeside and Trane Road.
During a hearing last summer, Eisen told the court that the woman deliberately slowed down in front of him and that he believed she was trying to cause a wreck in pursuit of an insurance settlement. He indicated he pulled a weapon in self- defense when he believed she was reaching for her own firearm in her fanny pack.
Defense attorney Aaron Reed told the jury that the alleged victim instigated hostility by operating her motorcycle in an “extremely erratic manner,” making serpentine turns in the roadway at varying speeds. And he took issue with police and prosecution assertions that Eisen swerved the SUV to make contact with the motorcycle.
“No accident actually occurred,” Reed said. “The vehicles never touched each other.”
Schoppmann said the victim asserts that contact did occur and that the impact put her motorcycle down, resulting in road rash and other injuries. Schoppmann played three short video clips of moments leading up to the crash that he said were captured by school surveillance system video.
The trial is expected to push into Thursday.
