Truck driver shot self before I-78 crash
Moments before a tractor-trailer crashed on Interstate 78 on Saturday morning, its driver put a gun to his head and pulled the trigger, New Jersey state police said Monday.
Andre Epps, 42, of Harrisburg, was alone and driving eastbound about 12:10 a.m. when his rig swerved off the road in Union Township and overturned.
Troopers, who found Epps dead at the scene, initially thought he had died of head injuries brought about by the crash. But they later discovered a single shell casing and a handgun in the cab and other weapon in another part of the truck, said a state police spokesman.
An autopsy determined Epps died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
The incident remains under investigation.
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