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Originally Posted by vash

I didn’t necessarily read it as the SUV did it on purpose. If lane splitting is illegal, makes sense the driver didn’t anticipate a motorcycle bring in that spot.

I don’t understand when he exited his vehicle to shoot.

Yep, that's possible (that the driver really was changing lanes and just didn't expect or see the biker).

Originally Posted by Geronimo '74

What? The other driver changed lanes, he was not swerving to intentionally hinder JaDouchebag.
Where did you read that he did?

But we don't know that for sure.

Originally Posted by KC911

I was "reading between the lanes" . I wasn't there, but envisioned two (or more) lanes of traffic at a crawl. Lane splitting is perfectly legal in some places btw but that's beside the point. If the truck was "just changing lanes", that would be one plausible scenario, but the motorcycle didn't just appear out of thin air, and he might have been just a lousy driver that wasn't paying attention. Another plausible scenario .... the truck driver saw him coming and pulled a dickhead move to cut him off. In that scenario.... two people playing stoopid games with lethal weapons.

I've seen motorists attempt to block other cars, etc. a bunch of times... so just speculation on my part.

I had the same initial thought that you did, that the guy in the SUV thought, "Eff you motorcycle, dude. You can't do that and I'll stop ya!"

The thing is, none of us know. The reality could very easily have been either way. We do know for a fact that a 19 yo kid on a motorcycle made a very poor judgement call and is now no longer around. Also, now a man with a family has to live with what he did, and his kids are almost certainly going to have to live with it too.

Sucks all around.