Police investigate I-95 road-rage shooting
Pennsylvania State Police are searching for a motorist who allegedly fired a bullet into another vehicle on Interstate 95 in Southwest Philadelphia during an alleged road-rage shooting Tuesday morning.
Pennsylvania State Police are searching for a motorist who allegedly fired a bullet into another vehicle on Interstate 95 in Southwest Philadelphia during an alleged road-rage shooting Tuesday morning.
The shooting happened about 6:30 a.m. just south of the double-decker Girard Point Bridge, which carries I-95 over the Schuylkill.
A 38-year-old man told state troopers he was driving his vehicle north when he saw another motorist in an older model black Chevrolet Impala or Malibu driving erratically behind him. He said the other motorist then pulled up alongside him and displayed a black semiautomatic handgun.
The motorist said the driver with the gun then pulled in behind him and fired his gun. The bullet penetrated the wheel well in the rear passenger side of the victim's vehicle, disabling the vehicle, said Trooper Timothy Greene, a state police spokesman.
Greene declined to identify the victim's vehicle to protect the man's identity. He said he did not know if there was anything that happened that prompted the gunman to lash out.
The victim called police after stopping on I-95.
The gunman, described as black, about 30 to 40 years old with facial hair, left the highway via the Broad Street exit (Exit 17).
Anyone with information about the shooting can anonymously contact the Pennsylvania Crime Stoppers line at 1-800-4PA-TIPS. There could be a cash reward.
Tipsters can also contact Trooper Brian Maturo of the Pennsylvania State Police Criminal Investigation Unit, at 215-452-5216.
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