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Suspect in I-476 road rage shooting arrested

Published  May 12, 2016 6:42am EDT
U.S.
FOX 29 Philadelphia

MONTGOMERY COUNTY, PA (WTXF) - Pennsylvania State Police have taken a man in custody in connection with a road rage shooting on Interstate 476 last week.

50-year-old Anthony Richardson, of Overbrook, was arrested Wednesday morning for a road rage shooting.

Police say an argument led to gunfire on the highway last Thursday in Montgomery County.

Pennsylvania State Police had been looking for a driver who fired one shot at a blue Mitsubishi lancer around mile post 16 in the northbound lanes along I-476.

MORE: Police investigate road rage shooting on I-476

Police spent Thursday afternoon processing the Mitsubishi with a visible single gunshot to the passenger door. Investigators have released a composite sketch of the man who they believe pulled the trigger. He was driving an early 2000 model dark blue Lincoln Towncar when police say he got upset with the driver in the Mitsubishi.

The single shot missed the victim but went through the door and lodged in the cars center console. Witnesses tell FOX 29 they saw the confrontation unfold along the highway.