Truck driver arrested in shooting death of fellow trucker on Virginia interstate

A truck driver has been arrested on murder charges in connection with a suspected road rage shooting in Virginia late last month.

On Thursday, February 13, Florida-based truck driver Tony Ray Williams, 55, was arrested by the Fort Pierce Police Department out of Florida on charges of Second Degree Murder and Use of a Firearm in Commission of a Felony.

The charges were issued in connection with the death of Massachusetts-based truck driver Silvio Sobrinho, 58.

Around 11:30 p.m. on January 31, police responded to southbound I-295 at mile marker 25 in Henrico County, Virginia, and discovered Sobrinho dead in the cab of his truck from a gunshot wound.

Troopers believe that Sobrinho was driving a tractor trailer hauling a load of cars in the left lane of southbound I-295 when his vehicle was struck by a second semi truck traveling in the center lane, forcing Sobrinho’s truck off the road and into a guardrail.

After Sobrinho’s truck came to a stop against the guardrail, Virginia State Police said that the driver of the second semi truck pulled up alongside him and fired multiple rounds into the crashed truck.

A witness traveling north pulled off, found Sobrinho in the cab laying over the steering wheel, and called police. A trooper performed CPR but Sobrinho was pronounced dead at the scene.

The fatal shooting remains under investigation.

If you have information, you’re asked to call the Virginia State Police Bureau of Criminal Investigation at 804-750-8758, #77 from a cell phone, or email bci.81@vsp.virginia.gov.