Auburn resident Paul Colna was startled when he heard the news Monday. I was really surprised. You here about that in bigger cities and towns and stuff, but not here, she said.
Witnesses reported that the vehicles had been racing and cutting each other off for miles before the fight.
Orwigsburg resident Kristen Reed says erratic driving is not uncommon. Well, you’ll have people cutting you off, but you never have people getting out of their cars and fighting in the middle of the highway, said Reed.
Colna tells Newswatch 16, You see a lot of people weaving in and out and stuff, and it probably does get people mad.
Man charged with murder in road rage stabbing death case
April 13, 2021
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ORWIGSBURG, Pa. (AP) A man has been charged with murder in a stabbing death that authorities say followed a road rage confrontation in Pennsylvania.
Tamiir Whitted, 29, of Pottsville was charged with first- and third-degree murder as well as aggravated assault and other counts, according to police and court documents.
State police in Schuylkill County said two people in a sedan and a truck both heading south on Route 61 got into a road rage confrontation Monday. Police said they left their vehicles and “engaged in a physical confrontation” Monday in West Brunswick Township, and one produced a knife and stabbed the other multiple times.
Updated: 9:55 AM EDT April 13, 2021
SCHUYLKILL COUNTY, Pa. State Police have charged a 29-year-old Schuylkill County man with murder, aggravated assault, and related offenses following a road rage incident that left one person dead near Orwigsburg on Monday.
Tamiir Ion Whitted, of Pottsville, is accused of stabbing and killing 38-year-old George Marcincin of Orwigsburg during a confrontation along Route 61 South near Brick Hill Road at about 2 p.m. Monday, according to State Police.
Investigators say the two men were traveling south on Route 61 when they exited their vehicles and got into a physical confrontation, during which Whitted produced a knife and stabbed Marcincin several times.