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A foreign truck driver is facing an attempted murder charge following a shooting on a Wyoming highway last week, according to reports.
The harrowing incident unfolded on Nov. 20 in Carbon County, WY.
Scott Schaffer was leading a two-vehicle convoy carrying his family along Interstate 80 when they encountered a big rig driven by Rabindranath Bunsee, according to court documents reviewed by Cowboy State Daily.
Schaffer said he saw a tractor-trailer nearly ram into his wife’s SUV while changing lanes, briefly forcing her off the road.
Schaffer said the truck operator then swerved at him and forced his pickup truck off the road.
When Schaffer regained the pavement, he said he attempted to pass the big rig and saw the driver pointing a handgun out of the window.
“Mr. Schaffer then heard the gunshot and the bullet hit his vehicle and (he) was instantly scared for his life and the life of his 2-year-old daughter,” an evidentiary affidavit states.
“It was not until she started moving that he realized she was not hit. He sped away as fast as possible to get away.”
Schaffer and his wife exited the highway and called police, who met them at a gas station to gather more information.
After observing a bullet hole in Schaffer’s passenger door, Wyoming Highway Patrol (WHP) began searching for the eighteen wheeler and eventually pulled it over with assistance from the Carbon County Sheriff’s Office.
“We ordered the driver out of the vehicle and he wasn’t initially complying,” WHP Trooper Cody Lenke.
A semi-automatic handgun was located inside the cab of the truck and authorities determined two rounds were missing from the magazine.
Investigators seized the weapon, a dash camera, a radar detector, and Bunsee’s cell phone.
Bunsee reportedly relayed a contradictory tale about the episode, claiming it was he who was run off the road, that he had never fired the weapon, and that he had forgotten the gun was in his truck at all.
“I didn’t fire a gun sir,” Bunsee claimed. “Like I said, the guy tried to run me off the road and tried to kill me. I didn’t shoot anybody. I didn’t shoot anybody with kids in the car.”
“Why this guy’s driving reckless? I don’t see him in this office. You’re supposed to arrest him.”
Bunsee, a Florida resident, told investigators he has lived in the U.S. since he was 10 and has been a commercial truck driver for more than 30 years.
Records indicate Bunsee may have been charged with reckless driving and participating in an unlawful street race in Florida in 2015.
Bunsee was arrested and reportedly charged with attempted second-degree murder, aggravated assault, reckless driving, reckless endangerment, property destruction, and using a radar detector.
He is being held at Carbon County Detention Center on $100,000 cash-only bond.
