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Gunman kills United driver in Dallas

Police are searching for a gunman who shot and killed a 42-year-old owner-operator for United Van Lines in his tractor in the Dallas area Monday evening, according to media reports.


The driver, William Scott Miller, of Frankfort, Ky., was shot as he was driving his 18-wheeler on the LBJ Expressway in northeast Dallas, the Dallas Morning News reported. His rig came to a stop in the middle lane of the westbound LBJ, police said.


“The plan was he was going to fly home to be with his wife and kids,” Lt. Craig Miller of the Dallas homicide unit said.


Lt. Miller called the truck driver’s actions “heroic.” No other people were injured as Mr. Miller maneuvered his truck out of traffic. “Even though he was mortally wounded, he was able to control his rig,” Lt. Miller said.


"We are deeply saddened by this senseless act, and our hearts go out to the family of William Scott Miller, his wife Shannon and their two young daughters," United Van Lines said in a statement. "He will be greatly missed. Scott was a part of the United Van Lines team for nearly two years and had a flawless safety record. He was an asset to our company both personally and professionally."


Mr. Miller worked for the Vincent Fister agency in Lexington, Ky., a United spokesperson said.


Minutes before the fatal shooting, a driver in a pickup truck north of the LBJ also was shot and killed, police told the newspaper. He had stopped at a red light when an extended-cab Ford F150 pulled alongside. A balding white man in his 40s fired shots at the truck, killing the 20-year-old driver, Garland, Texas, police told the newspaper.


After the United Van Lines driver was killed, police said another driver was injured by flying glass when his truck was fired upon also on the LBJ. The driver for Dugan Truck Line was taken to a local hospital, a company terminal manager told the media. Dallas police identified the driver as Gary Roberts, 46.


The Dugan employee radioed, saying, “I’m being shot at! I think I’m shot.” The trucker told the manager he didn’t know why he was being fired upon or who the assailant was.


In a fourth incident, a man began shooting at a tractor without a trailer on the LBJ, the newspaper reported. No one was injured in that incident. Dallas police identified that driver as Kenneth Black Harly, 62.