By Nick Gale, WLS-AM 890 News
(TIPTON, Iowa) –An Illinois man who opened fire on Interstate 80 in Iowa, is telling police he did so because he was angry about a fatal truck crash.
A sheriff’s deputy in Cedar County, Iowa wrote in an application for a search warrant that Charles Johnston had become obsessed with a crash and told investigators that he wanted to hurt at least one trucker in retaliation.
Johnston, a professor at Harper College in Palatine, has been charged with attempted murder and assault on a peace officer with a dangerous weapon. Officials say after Johnston opened fire on a motorist on January 11, he took off and fired more rounds at a nearby gas station. Troopers found him on a county road and there was an exchange of gunfire. No one was injured.
The 60-year-Johnston, who is a resident of Belvedere, is being held in the Cedar County Jail on $1 million bail.
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