Trucker shot and killed after semis make contact on I-81

you see, i didn't even bother to delve deeper into this story, kudo's to you for doing so.

i'll have to sway my opinion then, that the aggressor (based on what you found to be his background) as the aggressor, and the other guy simply defended himself.

so as the cops would say, "a good shooting"

 

this happened just the other day, here in my state, a city away from me, and the video shows the guy and his license plate number. the cops got an arrest warrant out for him, of course, he is hiding like a little girl now.

now in this instance, we already know who the aggressor IS, and if anyone had a gun, (the lady in the car did not) i think she would have been justified in shooting his dumbarse

‘Like a Ninja Turtle’: Woman claims man came at her with sword during road rage incident | WPRI.com

 

Any mention of what company these drivers worked for or if either was an OO.

Too much missing info to make many judgments here.

 

Depends on the news site but ive seen 13 diffrent companys so far if you count O/O lol.

 

I will agree with you we dont know if it was self defense or not. But there should not be guns involved in this situation in the first place. If you feel the need to kill someone because of a road rage argument. You shouldnt own a gun.

 

I trust the media be it fox, cnn or indy about as far as i can pick up and throw my truck when its fully loaded. I ALWAYS fact check ANYTHING one of those talking heads sprew as the truth. Hell i dont even trust them to tell me the weather anymore. And in about 95% of cases they are lieing through their teeth to spin a story with just a couple of facts.

 

Oh i agree entirely. But sadly many people like to push an issue far past the bounds of what is reasonable for a situation and leave the gun owner zero choice. There are cases where its shoot the guy or die/get beaten near to death. Some people just cant be talked down and some even when the gun comes out to try and ward off an attacker they just keep going and leave you less options.

Ive been lucky ive only had to pull my gun once. And that was because someone and his 3 buddys tried to rob me at knife point in good ol detroit while i was getting fuel in the early AM. And ive still managed to avoid shooting someone thankfully. Ive been shot id prefer not to do it to someone else.

Honestly i wish we could go back to just throwing fisticuffs then go have a beer to settle issues. But things are getting worse and worse by the day not better. And people are being taught rather negitive things from a very young age.

 

Incidents like these are what keep defense attorneys from being out of a job and quite rich. Unless the other driver could prove the one shot also had a weapon, having prior convictions for the one shot does not give the shooter the right to pull a trigger, and also the one with the gun would not have known his criminal history anyway. My question is why did they park up and start arguing? Would hate to play judge or jury in this case.

 

If the dead person was the "aggressor", the other party still will be facing some serious legal battles, even if this be the case. Once a person is involved in a legal battle such as this, lawyers are involved and guess who is going to pay the lawyers. So, even if the "shooter" is cleared of criminal charges, there are civil suits coming from the dead man's family. It would been much, much better had the "shooter" just turned his back, walked away, got back in his truck, locked the doors, called 911.