A man who shot at a semi truck in a fit of road rage is now facing criminal charges.
It happened on Friday morning in Lincoln Township, Michigan on eastbound Interstate 94 near mile marker 24.
According to the police report, 45-year-old semi truck driver Allen Shotko was driving his 2015 Freightliner in a construction zone when an enraged motorcyclist pulled up beside him. That’s when the motorcyclist, 34-year-old Trenton Norris, took out a gun and shot at the semi truck as they were both driving down the highway.
At around 7:45 a.m., Shotko called the police and gave a detailed description of the 2014 Harley-Davidson motorcycle.
Officers stopped Norris near the mile marker 38 where he admitted to shooting at the truck. He told police that he fired his gun after the truck driver had cut him off, but he remarked that he did not intend to cause any injury to the trucker.
Upon inspection of the semi truck, police found a bullet hole in the radiator. Norris was found carrying a loaded .40 caliber pistol.
Mlive reported that just moments before the shooting, police received another report of the same motorcyclist seen brandishing a gun near Stevensville and Watervliet. Shots were not fired during that incident.
On Monday, Norris was charged with assault to do great bodily harm less than murder, assault with a dangerous weapon, discharge of a firearm from a motor vehicle and carrying a concealed weapon.
