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.
An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when you may have to back up your actions with your life.......Robert Heinlein....
Karma’s a witch
"Convicted road rage killer shot dead by driver in Florida"
Never say never.
He was NOT “turning his life around”.
Karma is .......
Sure hope the shooter doesn’t get in trouble.
11 years should have been 11 minutes to a hangman’s noose.
, , , , , Chameleon
Boy,.......George..........
But he was turning his car around!............
He was in an episode of The A-Team as himself. He had to disguise himself as a country singer. The episode was called Cowboy George.
He was an aspiring chauffeur.
As Chris Rock once said:
New in town?
Want to score some dope?
Just ask directions to MLK Jr. Blvd!.........
Now he’s a WRAPPER!.........
I guess he didn’t think much had changed in 11 years!
Boy did he get a surprise!........
Nothing was going to stop him!
Last I heard he was DJ at some podunk radio station!.......
An accident waiting to happen. I fear this will be brother G.Zim’s fate one day (a victim of homicide). I also think he has been trying to make it happen, because he has given up hoping for a better life, and thinks ‘being taken out’ will be his fate anyway.
near the intersection of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd....nothing but nothing good happens near ANY MLK Blvd...
You can say that again !
and again, and again, and again
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