Police: Murder thought to be road rage was mistaken identity case
BALTIMORE -- When Timothy Davison was gunned down in January on Interstate-81 in Pennsylvania, just over the border with Maryland, police initially believed he was the victim of a road rage shooting. They now say Davison was accidentally targeted by man who was trying to kill two other people.
CBS Baltimore reports that the break in the case came when a man contacted police saying he and his wife were the intended targets of John Wayne Strawser Jr., who faces a first-degree murder charge in Davison's death. Strawser is already in a West Virginia jail facing charges in a separate case for the murder of his girlfriend.
Authorities will seek to extradite him to Pennsylvania after the West Virginia case is completed.
Strawser allegedly chased Timothy Davison for 15 miles from Hagerstown, Md., to Chambersburg, Pa., before firing a barrage of bullets into Davison's car on Jan. 4. Davison was driving from Florida to Maine at the time.
Pennsylvania State Police Commander Adam Kosheba said the tipster came forward in April.
"He and his wife had argued with the subject at times, including the night of the homicide, and...he had been looking for them that particular night," Kosheba said.
Court records reveal Strawser made threats to the couple as they left a nightclub. The pair drove the same route as Davison into Pennsylvania on the night of the shooting.
As Strawser allegedly -- and mistakenly -- chased Davison, the victim called 911.
"He smashed me with a car and pushed me across the median," Davison said in the 911 call.
Davison's calls for help are the last time his voice is ever heard. DOT cameras allegedly caught Strawser turning around to finish the crime.