Royersford man dies after shooting on Pennsylvania Turnpike, Pennsylvania State Police say

A Montgomery County man who authorities say was shot by another truck driver on the Pennsylvania Turnpike in an “incident of road rage” has succumbed to his injuries, Pennsylvania State Police said Monday.

The unnamed 40-year-old Royersford man was shot Friday afternoon while driving a white pickup truck near the 291.3 mile marker in Lancaster County, police said. Eastbound lanes of the Pennsylvania Turnpike were closed for several hours during the investigation. The suspect vehicle was identified as a white semi-truck, and the motive appeared to be “an incident of road rage,” police said.

The Royersford man was taken to Reading Hospital, where he died Monday, police said.

On Saturday, police found a parked tractor-trailer matching the description of the vehicle they were looking for in the parking lot of a Berks County shopping center. Inside the cab, they found the suspect, a 59-year-old man from North Dinwiddie, Virginia, who had suffered a self-inflicted gunshot wound, police said.

The incident remains under investigation and police are asking anyone traveling between mile marker 266 near the Lebanon-Lancaster interchange and mile marker 291.3 near the Reading interchange between 12:45 p.m. and 1:15 p.m. to contact the Pennsylvania State Police station in Lancaster at 717-299-7650.