Trucker says he feels ‘blessed’ to outlive after 13 pictures fired at his semi by ‘random man’ in Kansas

A truck driver is warning fellow drivers to “pay attention to your environment always” following a terrifying encounter with a person who attacked him with each a metallic rod and gun.

Mississippi-based truck driver Joseph Earl Walker says that the incident occurred in Oakley, Kansas, on March 3, 2023.

In a written assertion to CDLLife, Walker described the occasions main as much as the taking pictures:

“I had simply gotten up from a pair hours of nap and was gonna proceed my shift of driving I had left … In order I’m leaving a man in a inexperienced pickup truck was blocking my exit and mentioned, “Human, you shall not move.”

So my intuition kicked in to only again the truck up and take a look at entering into one other route however he got here charging at me with a metallic rod of some kind, smashing mirrors and home windows on the truck. I known as 911, informed them to ship assist and so I put the truck in drive simply to attempt to scare him away from the truck and me, however he threw himself on the truck as if suicidal, so I finished… after which he began taking pictures… The primary shot that got here by way of I used to be sure hit me, but it surely didn’t, solely grazed my face from the glass. However as soon as he stopped taking pictures I put the truck into drive and simply hoped to only get away from him. I stored driving til police arrived behind me.

As I used to be getting checked out by paramedics they discovered a bullet casing in my dreads. I imply, dude was that near taking my head off, like unreal. 13 bullets have been fired on the truck whereas I used to be in it and never a one hit me.

I’m really blessed to nonetheless be right here in the present day. Nicely, I take that again, I’m right here bodily, however mentally it’s been laborious to sleep with replaying the occasion in my thoughts time and again. From somebody who has served within the U.S. Military, I find out about trauma however this was a unique stage of trauma.

So I say to everybody, pay attention to your environment always and dwell daily as if it have been your final.”

You possibly can see extra images of the harm to Walker’s truck and the small damage he suffered in the course of the incident within the social media posts under.

CDLLife has reached out to the Oakley Police Division (OPD) for extra data on the standing of this case and this story shall be up to date after they reply.