LOWELL, Ind. — The Indiana State Police (ISP) Lowell Post Criminal Investigation Division has made an arrest in connection to the March 28 Interstate 65 shooting of a truck driver.
According to an ISP report, Donavon A. Brewer, 32, or Merrillville, Indiana, turned himself in to detectives on March 30.
Brewer has been charged with attempted murder and criminal recklessness.
According to the original ISP report, the shooting occurred around 4:45 p.m. in the southbound lanes at the 224-mile marker near the Roselawn/Demotte exit to S.R. 10.
Based on the preliminary investigation, evidence shows that a semi driver was traveling southbound when he sustained a gunshot wound. Further details about a motive for the shooting weren’t provided.
Once troopers arrived at the scene, they immediately rendered first aid on the trucker until paramedics arrived.
He was airlifted to a hospital in Indianapolis to undergo emergency treatment.
The truck driver’s identity has not been revealed.
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This article…sux…not any information,is like saying an intergalactic freighter’s captain was shot,no more details.
I stop for the night at the Love’s at Demotte, Indiana several times a month. There are crazies on that stretch of I-65. Last Fall I had a moron flashing his brights because I wouldn’t move to the right lane in a construction zone. There was ample signage stating for trucks to use left lane. The idiot then passed me only to start brake checking me. we were doing 10mph for 3 or 4 miles. Somehow for a four wheeler who was in such a big hurry, he suddenly wasn’t. Had I had a cow catcher, he might have ended up in the pickers! I would have loved to have had a State Trooper roll up on us.
who knows, this might have been the same fool.