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Tyler Texas Road Rage Shooting 02/13/2026
Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2026 9:58 pm
by PriestTheRunner
Tyler road rage incident leads to shooting
Story by KLTV Digital Media Staff
TYLER, Texas (KLTV) - One driver was taken to a hospital after being shot by another driver in what police say was a road rage incident at the intersection of Grande Avenue and Paluxy Drive Friday evening.
Tyler police spokesman Andy Erbaugh said a person at the aforementioned intersection got out of his vehicle, a white Tesla, and approached the driver’s side of a white Ram pickup. The driver of the pickup fired through the window of the truck, striking the man from the Tesla in the neck. The man who fired the shot remained on scene and is being detained.
Erbaugh said there was a woman and children in the Tesla.
Both sides of Grande Boulevard are closed in the area of Paluxy Drive while police investigate.
Re: Tyler Texas Road Rage Shooting 02/13/2026
Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2026 8:07 pm
by carlson1
I am not for sure why you would get out of your vehicle and approach another man.
Re: Tyler Texas Road Rage Shooting 02/13/2026
Posted: Sat Feb 21, 2026 11:48 am
by 03Lightningrocks
Most intelligent folks would not hop out of their vehicle and approach another during a road rage situation.Both of the young men involved in this are at an age where hormones and the feeling of immortality motivate their actions. It is pretty obvious the guy who hopped out of his vehicle was planning to give the pickup driver "what for". We shall never know if he planned to do this lecture verbally or physically. Having a wife and child in the car could easily cause a person to become emotionally charged when feeling another driver challenged your "road authority". When using deadly force self defense, we are not required to allow the other guy to "fire" first. The guy under arrest very likely started running his mouth with no lawyer present and buried himself when trying to describe how and what made him fear for his life. One should never speak to the police without a lawyer present.
Re: Tyler Texas Road Rage Shooting 02/13/2026
Posted: Sat Feb 21, 2026 12:22 pm
by 2farnorth
I see where the guy was detained but it doesn't say anything about arrest Hopefully it doesn't come out that way. I used to warn my idiot ex SIL about his predisposition to jump out of his vehicle and go challenge another driver over an imagined slight.
Re: Tyler Texas Road Rage Shooting 02/13/2026
Posted: Sat Feb 21, 2026 3:24 pm
by PriestTheRunner
2farnorth wrote: Sat Feb 21, 2026 12:22 pm
I see where the guy was detained but it doesn't say anything about arrest Hopefully it doesn't come out that way. I used to warn my idiot ex SIL about his predisposition to jump out of his vehicle and go challenge another driver over an imagined slight.
The victim died, and the shooter was arrested and is currently pending bond (as far as I can find)
https://www.kltv.com/2026/02/14/victim- ... -arrested/
TYLER, Texas (KLTV) — A 23-year-old Ben Wheeler man has been charged with murder in connection with a fatal road rage shooting that occurred Friday evening in Tyler.
Dayton Morgan is accused of killing 29-year-old Trevor Julian during an incident at the intersection of Grande Boulevard and Paluxy Drive around 5 p.m. Friday.
According to Tyler police, Julian was stopped at the intersection when he got out of the passenger side of his car and approached the driver’s side of a white truck. As Julian approached, Morgan fired out of the window, hitting Julian in the neck and killing him.
Morgan was arrested and charged with first-degree murder. He is being held on a $1 million bond in the Smith County Jail.
Andy Erbaugh, public information officer for Tyler Police Department, said police have no evidence Julian was armed as he approached the pickup. The reason for the interaction and what led to the shooting remains unknown, but police say there was no accident involved.
“Our investigator will do a lot of work in this. We gotta determine what actually happened to cause such a horrific incident here and that’s investigators will do,” Erbaugh said.
Julian was a 2015 graduate of Carthage High School and served as a Marine. At the time of the shooting, Tyler police say there was a woman and children in the car with Julian.
During his military service in 2017, Julian worked as an automotive maintenance technician with the Headquarters Regiment, 3rd Marine Logistics Group in Okinawa, Japan. He was a lance corporal stationed at Camp Kinser.
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