Posted on 01/12/2022 7:50:28 PM PST by Coronal
A spokesman for Florida’s State Board of Administration was shot and killed in an apparent road-rage incident last week near Tallahassee, according to law enforcement and news reports.
The driver of a Prius fatally shot John Kuczwanski, 52, outside a Circle K on Thursday after the two had pulled over following a collision, according to the Leon County Sheriff’s Office and accounts by Florida Politics, the Tallahassee Democrat and other news organizations.
Florida Politics cited unnamed sources who said the incident began when Kuczwanski’s BMW veered out of its lane and hit the Prius, after which both drivers pulled into a parking lot.
The driver of the Prius confronted Kuczwanski, and then got back into his car to wait for law enforcement to investigate the accident, the sources told Florida Politics.
The exchange then escalated dramatically as “Kuczwanski rammed his BMW into the Prius on the driver’s door, and began pushing the car sideways in the parking lot,” according to the account. “Kuczwanski then shot a gun at the white Prius, according to the sources.”
The Prius driver, who also had a gun, shot and fired back into Kuczwanski’s windshield, striking him, the sources told Florida Politics.
The incident took place shortly after 5 p.m. in the area of 6700 Thomasville Road, near Bannerman Road.
Deputies and EMS attempted life saving measures for Kuczwanski on the scene. He was taken to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Court records show Kuczwanski had been “arrested for a confrontation with another driver at the same intersection in December 2014,” WCTV reported Tuesday.
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No doubt the FBI will investigate this as a terror attack by an irate parent.
Self defense? Strange story.
Wow, that’s all kinds of screwed up, and looks like a good shoot at first glance.
Government bureaucrat and BMW driver. What could go arrogantly wrong?
Not to make light of things, but Tiffani Theisen and Circle K imply a Hollywood connection.....
I’m shocked that a prius owner had a gun.
It’s Florida
“It’s Florida”
Very true. I once met a Trump voter who drove a Prius, although when he told me about Trump, he felt the need to whisper it (we were next to the Prius).
A lot of people that buy electric cars are violent zealots.
my first thought too 😂
We’re NOT arrogant.
It’s not our fault they don’t come with turning signals.
Who needs those fkn things anyways?
Heh heh
I get made fun of for driving a Jaguar…
Gee wiz this is tragic. People are so unhinged these days. You get so angry you ram a car and start shooting at it? And then that gets the other guy so mad he starts shooting back at your car? This is nuts.
And was the better shot.
Florida State Board of Administration official?
If the report is true, he was a lunatic.
That part isn't nuts. Unless you think letting someone kill you with his car or his gun is just the better part of valor. I suspect fear was more likely his main motivator than anger.
That is pretty shocking.
Love jags. Was very, very close to getting an F-type, but the manual only was available on the 6 cylinder - not the 8.
I could not, for the life of me, understand the thinking behind that... so I just went with the Z06.
One could almost think the prius driver was trying to get away with stealing something valuable but illegal from the FL official.
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