Road rage between strangers escalated quickly before fatal Syracuse shooting, prosecutor says

Syracuse, NY — The two men in Wednesday’s road-rage incident were apparently strangers before the deadly encounter, a prosecutor told syracuse.com | The Post-Standard on Friday.

Ezell Hicks Jr., 61, was shot to death around 4:30 p.m. after leaving his vehicle at a busy rush-hour intersection and approaching another vehicle with a knife, authorities have said.

The shooter, a 43-year-old man who has not been publicly identified, had a passenger in his car at the time Hicks approached with the knife, prosecutor Robert Moran said Friday…

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