Man killed in road rage shooting on Pa. Turnpike, gunman commits suicide, police say – NBC10 Philadelphia

Pennsylvania State Police officials say a driver who was shot in the head during a road rage incident along the Pennsylvania Turnpike in Pennsylvania County Lancaster last week died three days after the incident.

The suspected shooter, officials said, was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in a tractor-trailer in a Berks County parking lot the day after the incident.

Police say the victim — a 40-year-old Royersford man, about whom police did not provide further identifying information — was shot during a road rage incident that occurred May 31 on the Pa. Turnpike in Brecknock Township. , Lancaster County.

In that incident, authorities said, which occurred between 12:45 p.m. and 1:15 p.m., the victim was traveling in a white flatbed truck when he was involved in a road rage incident with the driver of a semi. white trailer.

During that incident, the victim was shot in the head and, according to authorities, he succumbed to his injuries Monday at a Reading hospital.

Investigators said the day after the shooting, Saturday, June 1, 2024, they found a tractor-trailer believed to be the suspected shooter's vehicle in the parking lot of a shopping complex on Crossings Boulevard in Caernarvon Township , in Berks County.

Driving that truck, officials said, police found the driver, a 59-year-old man from North Dinwiddie, Virginia, dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

After finding the man's remains, officials say, a follow-up investigation led police to believe the man was the shooter in the fatal May 31, 2024, road rage incident on Hwy. Pennsylvania Turnpike.

Authorities said an investigation into the incident remains ongoing.