Georgia man sentenced in 2021 malice murder of South Carolina truck driver
Deron Bell, 22. (Credit: Georgia Bureau of Investigation) (Supplied)
GREENE COUNTY, Ga. - A man on trial for murdering a truck driver in what police have described as an act of road rage was sentenced to life with the possibility of parole.
22-year-old Deron Bell entered a guilty plea on Nov. 29 for the April 2021 malice murder of 30-year-old Joseph Lee Briggs, Jr. of South Carolina.
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Police said Bell fired three rounds into the driver side of Briggs' truck door, hitting him twice and ultimately killing him on I-20 in Greensboro around 6:30 a.m. that morning.
Bell then fled to Baton Rouge in Louisiana where officials said he hid out for a year. The U.S. Marshals Service found him after a 10-month-long manhunt.