LANCASTER COUNTY, PA – A victim of a road rage altercation that transpired on PA Turnpike, Lancaster County, passed away three days after the occurrence, according to Pennsylvania State Police officials. Prior to the victim’s death, authorities had discovered his suspected shooter dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound inside a tractor-trailer in a parking lot in Berks County the day after the incident.
Police have disclosed minimal details about the 40-year-old victim from Royersford, who succumbed to a gunshot wound to the head incurred from the incident on May 31. Authorities state that the road rage encounter took place between 12:45 and 1:15 p.m.
The unidentified victim, operating a white flatbed truck, clashed with another driver maneuvering a white tractor-trailer. His wounds ultimately proved fatal on June 3 at a Reading hospital.
Investigations led authorities to a shopping complex parking lot on Crossings Boulevard in Caernarvon Township, Berks County, on June 1, where a tractor-trailer matching the suspected shooter’s vehicle was located. Inside, police discovered a 59-year-old North Dinwiddie, Virginia, man dead from a gunshot wound.
Further investigations, spurred by the discovery of the man’s remains, have led police to conclude that he was potentially the assailant in the fatal road rage incident on PA Turnpike. The inquiry into the case is still proceeding, officials affirm.