Durham man charged in Chapel Hill road rage shooting that injured man

Thursday, June 24, 2021
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (WTVD) -- A Durham man was charged Thursday in a Chapel Hill road rage shooting that injured a man earlier in June, authorities said.

Members of the U.S. Marshals Regional Task Force charged Jose Daniel Rivas-Sanchez, 21, of Durham with one felony count of discharging a firearm into an occupied vehicle on June 7 at the intersection of Fordham Boulevard (US Highway 15-501) and Sage Road -- near Wegmans.
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Sanchez is being held at the Orange County Jail under a $75,000 bond.



The victim told Chapel Hill police that the shooting was the result of an argument about being cut off. That's when a passenger inside a blue Mazda open fire and struck the victim's vehicle and leg.
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Anyone with information on the shooting is asked to contact the Chapel Hill Police Department at 911 or CrimeStoppers at (919) 942-7515.

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