OSP identifies victim in fatal I-5 road rage shooting

(Update: OSP identifies shooting victim)

Oregon State Police said they are seeking a suspect vehicle in a fatal apparent road rage incident Sunday in the Roseburg area, where a 53-year-old Myrtle Creek man was shot and killed on Interstate 5.

Troopers and medics responded around noon Sunday to a reported shooting on southbound I-5 near milepost 124. OSP Capt. Tim Fox said witnesses reported someone in a late-model silver four-door sedan, possibly a Ford, with no license plates shot a man in another vehicle, also heading south.

The victim, identified Monday by OSP as Edward Lanier, was taken to Mercy Medical Center in Roseburg with a gunshot wound and was pronounced dead at the hospital, Fox said.

The suspect vehicle continued south on I-5. A witness described the driver as a man in his 30s, wearing a red baseball cap.

OSP later asked to hear from anyone who may have witnessed an altercation between the suspect’s vehicle, the victim’s beige 1992 Honda Accord and possibly a third vehicle, with no description.

All three vehicles were seen heading west on Harvard Avenue in Roseburg, just east of I-5, then turning onto the freeway’s southbound onramp.

Fox said OSP is urging anyone who sees a vehicle matching the suspect description to call 911 and not attempt to contact the driver, “as we consider the suspect armed and dangerous.”

Anyone with information about the incident and/or the shooting is asked to call *OSP (Star-OSP) and refer to case SP-19095157.