'Just Senseless': North Carolina Man Arrested After Firing Fatal Shot Through Driver Side of His Pickup Truck While Son Confronted Black Man In Road Rage Incident

[Atlanta Black Star]

A 32-year-old Black veteran and father of three was shot and killed
in Fayetteville, North Carolina, this week after a road rage
confrontation with a white father and son riding in a pickup truck
ended with the motorcyclist being shot in his chest.

Stephen Addison was shot by 51-year-old Roger Dale Nobles Sr. as the
biker argued with Roger Dale Nobles Jr. on Monday, Jan. 3.

Police state Nobles Sr. fired at Addison from the driver’s seat on
the inside of his 1992 Chevrolet pickup after his son got out of the
vehicle at a stoplight to confront Addison.

A bystander shot a video of the confrontation and sent it to local
station WRAL. Shot from a distance, the footage only shows Noble Jr.
standing outside of the passenger side of the truck and then walking
toward Addison. The two appear to be arguing when the shotgun blast
comes from the pickup. The video does not record the argument.

After Addison falls to the ground from the blast, Nobles Jr. walks
away without assisting him.

Police and Cumberland County sheriff’s deputies later located Nobles
Sr. at his home. After presenting him with a warrant, he and his son
were apprehended. Nobles Sr. admitted to the shooting Addison,
authorities say.

One neighbor said, “They put them in handcuffs, and then it went
from there. They started searching the truck.”

The older Nobles was arrested and charged with first-degree murder,
but the son was released without any charges.

The outlet reports that Cumberland County District Attorney Billy
West is looking at the evidence and is open to a possible hate crime
consideration.

After reviewing the six-minute exchange between Addison and Nobles
Jr. and analyzing the son’s body language, two security analysts
offered to the station that Nobles may have known that his dad
planned to use the weapon.

Anthony Waddy of SAV Consulting said, “Where he’s actually standing
in reference to, what we call in the military, a fatal funnel. He’s
clearly out of harm’s way.”

The analyst says it appears that Nobles Jr. created a clear path for
the shot to strike Addison, noting that even after the shot the son
did not flinch. Moreover, after the man fell to the ground, Waddy
asserts the son did not turn as if surprised that his father fired
his gun at the man.

Addison’s friends and family members are still trying to process the
loss of their loved one amid the outpouring of condolences from the
community.

Justina Hemphill, the wife of the former Fort Bragg soldier, while
reflecting on Addison’s life to WRAL said that he was a “great guy”
and his personality “lit up every room he went into.”

“[He was] a loving, caring guy for anybody. He stayed out the way
[and] was never in anybody’s business,” Buddy Justin Cockrell said,
adding, “There won’t be one bad word spoken about Stephen.”

“It’s just senseless. It’s 2022, and we’re still talking about road
rage, I mean, come on. I lost my brother, for what?” the friend
concluded.

At the intersection of his demise, the community has set up a
memorial dressed in pictures, candles, and tokens of care.

Nobles Sr. remains in the Cumberland County jail without bond as
police ask the community for additional footage.

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