Posted on 08/10/2016 4:46:00 PM PDT by digger48
PLANT CITY, Fla. (WFLA) – A man who had just been released from prison after serving time for a road rage killing was shot and killed during a road rage encounter in Plant City, Fl. on Wednesday morning, authorities said.
It happened at 7 a.m. near the intersection of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd and Branch Forbes Road.
According to the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office, one driver stopped his car in front of the other, got out of his pickup truck and approached the motorist behind him. That’s when an argument escalated between the two.
Investigators said the driver in the car, 42-year-old Robert Padgett, warned Gary Lynn Durham, who was the driver of the pickup truck, before he pulled out a gun and shot him.
When paramedics arrived, they found Padgett giving CPR to Durham, who later died.
According to the sheriff’s office, Durham was just released from prison for killing a man during a road rage incident. Durham spent 11 years behind bars.
A sheriff’s office spokesperson said that Padgett will not be arrested and he is cooperating with the investigation.
“He was trying to do the right thing and make sure the individual would survive,” said HCSO Col. Donna Lusczynski. Padgett was released by deputies pending review of the case by the State’s Attorney’s Office.
The intersection will be closed for the next few hours as the investigation continues, deputies said. Drivers are asked to avoid the area and take alternate routes.
Damn... what goes around, etc., etc.,
Carma..........
Symmetry.
#2A
Road-rager rages no more.
Slow Learner
Adios, MoFo!
After eleven years, he had just started to turn his life around and then some bad sh!t like that just ruins it.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd
Nothing good ever happens on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd
No matter how fair your city is.... Avoid Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. at all cost
DANG IT! ;-)
Dude should have recognized that he had a problem, and moved out to the sticks to save his own life.
Damn spent 11 years behind bars on the tax payers dime and
still didn’t learn a damn thing.
Remember, politeness is very important in a right to carry state..
I warn my boys all the time about road brawls
Choose your battles wisely
A friend of mine got pissed one time and pull out his HK 91 on north state street in Jackson Miss and raked his adversary’s truck engine and got in about 10,000 in legal fees worth of trouble
Yours Stupidly Truly jumped out of my truck on an Eye Forty exit ramp here in Music City expecting to get working on one reasonable looking opponent when 3 Jack Lambert lookalikes crawled out of an old late 60s thunderbird
They were all grinning ear to ear....I knew I was done for with that bunch and quickly backed off.....shamelessly I confess telling them “I ain’t stupid”
Road fights are perilous
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