18-Year-Old Charged with Second-Degree Murder in Fatal Road Rage Incident Involving Gary Denham

Charles Smith Jr. of Cape Girardeau was arrested after fatally shooting Gary Denham of Oak Grove in a road-rage incident on I-70 near Oak Grove. Smith claimed that Denham cut him off and hit his car multiple times, leading him to fire a warning shot. Denham was found shot inside his pickup truck that veered off the side of the interstate and hit a parked vehicle at a gas station.