Semi driver sentenced to year in jail for backing over man at Wichita truck stop

An Oklahoma man who ran over a fellow semi truck driver after a spat over a parking spot at a Wichita truck stop last year was sentenced Thursday to a year in jail.

But because Travis Lyle Briscoe, 47, gets credit for the 331 days he’s already spent in the Sedgwick County Jail, he’ll be incarcerated for only about another month.

Briscoe was booked on Aug. 13, 2025, in connection with the death of 57-year-old Georgia resident Abdelmuttalib K. Mohamed at the Love’s Travel Stop, 1504 E. 21st St. in Wichita. When prosecutors tried the case last week, they asked the jury to find Briscoe guilty of second-degree murder.

But jurors ultimately convicted him of misdemeanor vehicular homicide, a crime that carries a presumptive sentence of no more than a year in jail, after Briscoe argued he didn’t know Mohamed was behind his truck when he backed up…

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