NEWS RELEASE                                             

For Immediate Release
May 7, 2006
Contact: Michele Nicholson
Public Information Officer
  (850) 651-7420

ROAD RAGE SPARKS SHOOTING

     The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office arrested a Crestview man in connection with a road rage incident on Interstate 10 Saturday evening. 69-year old George Washington Burke of 2339 Crane Lane in Crestview is charged with aggravated battery and discharging a weapon in public.

     Deputies say Burke shot 38-year old tractor trailer driver Jorge F. Porto of Kissimmee ( 2136 Walden Park Circle, Apt. 103 ) with rat shot after the two had an encounter in the westbound lanes of I-10 near Crestview. Porto was taken by helicopter to a Pensacola hospital.

    Burke, who was driving a green, 2006 Chrysler van at the time, told authorities Porto had tried to run him off the road.

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