CHEEKTOWAGA, N.Y. — An Ohio man has been arrested for attempted murder after allegedly shooting at a tractor trailer on the New York State Thruway.
The incident happened Monday on the I-90 westbound near exit 50.
New York State Troopers out of Clarence received a report of shots fired into a tractor trailer driving west on the I-90 before exit 50. The shots entered the truck and were very close to the 10-year-old child asleep in the sleeper cab of the tractor trailer, according to police.
As troopers were responding to the first incident, they were alerted another call of a hit-and-run believed to have involved the same tractor trailer involved in the shots fired call.
Police pulled over the tractor trailer and arrested the driver.
Dylan Cottingham from Sullivan, Ohio, is charged with attempted murder, criminal possession of a weapon, and other charges, stated the New York State Police. He was driving a tractor trailer when this all unfolded, noted police.
According to police, they found a semi-automatic .45 caliber handgun and multiple magazines in Cottingham’s truck. Cottingham has a pistol permit for Ohio, notes police. He is currently being held at the Erie County Holding Center with no bail.
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