One dead, one in custody after shooting on I-94 early Wednesday
A Chesterton man is dead and another man is in custody after a road rage incident early Wednesday morning on Interstate 94.
Indiana State Police spokesman Sgt. Glen Fifield said in a release Wednesday that at around 4 a.m. On March 6, a man called ISP and said he’d been involved in a road rage on westbound I-80/94. The caller stopped his vehicle on Interstate 65 near 61st Avenue, approximately 2 miles south.
As the caller was on with dispatch, others called in a single-vehicle crash at the 12.8-mile marker in Lake Station, Fifield said.
Troopers who arrived at the crash scene attempted to give the victim first aid but saw that he had injuries consistent with a gunshot wound, Fifield said. The man, who was the only person in the vehicle, died as a result, he said.
The Lake County Coroner’s office has since identified the man as Mark Brant. He was 55.
The caller later told troopers who responded to him what happened, and he was taken into custody at the Lake County Jail on a probable cause hold, Fifield said.
The Lake Station Police, Fire and EMS, Lake County Sheriff’s Department, INDOT, Purkey’s Towing and WAFFCO Towing assisted.
Michelle L. Quinn is a freelance reporter for the Post-Tribune.