18-year-old faces felony charges in Missouri road rage death

Published April 22, 2023 2:32 PM

OAK GROVE, Mo. (AP) — An 18-year-old has been charged with fatally shooting another driver along a busy Missouri highway in what police called a road-rage incident. The Southeast Missourian reports that Charles Smith Jr. of Cape Girardeau was arrested after a 17-hour manhunt stretching from Wednesday into Thursday. The manhunt followed a deadly shooting on Interstate 70 near an exit to Oak Grove, a town located near the eastern edge of the Kansas City metropolitan area. Smith is charged with second-degree murder and other felonies in the death of 53-year-old Gary Denham of Oak Grove. No attorney is listed for Smith in online court records.

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