A truck driver survived a road-rage shooting in Chicago on Tuesday.
It happened at an intersection near Genoa Avenue and 95th street.
The truck driver, 63-year-old Norman Scott, says the suspect pulled up beside him when he stopped at a red light. The shooter then jumped in front of his truck and fired several shots into his windshield.
Scott says he still had the truck in gear and his foot on the accelerator, so he did the first thing that came to mind — try to run over the shooter in order to get away.
“I see his car coming up real fast he jumps out the car, gets in front and aims just like this and all I could do is duck and I hear the pop, pop, pop,” he told told NBC-5 reporters. “It’s an automatic and the truck was still in gear so all I could do was hit the accelerator and try to run him over.”
The gunman got away as Scott drove off. Coincidentally, Scott found his way to safety after driving down the block to an unrelated shooting scene that several police officers were already investigating.
Police are looking for a white male, in his early 40s, who was driving an older-model Lexus.
Scott says that at 63-year-old, he wonders while he’s still doing the job.
“30 plus years [as a truck driver] and maybe it’s time to get out now,” he said.