Truck driver arrested for homicide in taking pictures dying of fellow trucker in Ohio

A truck driver was arrested on Wednesday for the homicide of one other semi truck driver shot within the car parking zone of a enterprise in Sidney, Ohio.

Forty-eight 12 months previous North Carolina-based truck driver Lashawn Dean Hughes has been arrested and charged with one depend of Homicide, in line with the Sidney Police Division (SPD).

At 11:22 a.m. on August 30, SPD was known as to the car parking zone of Angstrom Fiber for a reported man down. Initially, it was thought that the person was struck by a automobile.

When officers arrived on scene, they discovered 32 12 months previous Ohio-based truck driver Brandon Tyler Welsh lifeless from a gunshot wound within the lot.

Investigators imagine that Welsh and Hughes have been concerned in a highway rage incident.

“Each males have been semi-truck operators for various corporations and neither man had any enterprise affiliation with Angstrom. It seems Angstrom was a random place the place the 2 males’s altercation got here to violence,” SPD stated.

Police say that Hughes fled the scene of the taking pictures in his semi truck however was later situated within the Village of Anna by the Anna Police Division.

Hughes was booked into the Shelby County Jail.

Anybody who witnessed the incident is requested to name the Sidney Police Division at 937-498-2351 or Crime Stoppers at 937-492-8477 (TIPS).