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Name of Suspect In I-20 Road Rage Shooting Made Public

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The search continues for 20-year-old Deron Demond Bell in connection with last Friday’s deadly road rage shooting on I-20 in Greene County. The GBI, Greene County Sheriff’s Office and U.S. Marshals are searching for Bell, who is from Norcross. Bell […]

20-year-old Deron Demond Bell of Norcross is wanted in connection with last Friday’s deadly road rage incident on I-20

The search continues for 20-year-old Deron Demond Bell in connection with last Friday’s deadly road rage shooting on I-20 in Greene County.

The GBI, Greene County Sheriff’s Office and U.S. Marshals are searching for Bell, who is from Norcross.

Bell is wanted for charges of felony murder, malice murder and aggravated assault.

South Carolina truck driver Joseph Lee Briggs, Jr. was shot while driving down I-20 West last Friday morning around 6:45.

Investigators believe he was shot after he passed too close to a car.

Briggs’ truck crossed the median, crossed I-20 East and crashed into the woods near mile marker 132. That is near the Veazey Road bridge.

The was dead by the time deputies got to him.

Briggs was 30 and from Manning, South Carolina.

He will be laid to rest this Sunday.

(Photo Credit: Greene County Sheriff’s Office)

Here is what you can do if you know anything.

Call the Greene County Sheriff’s Office at 706-453-3551.

Call GBI Office in Milledgeville at 478-445-4173.

Call the GBI Tip Line at 1-800-597-8477 or use the GBI’s online tip form at https://gbi.georgia.gov/submit-tips-online

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