Man arrested after shooting truck at convenience store
Posted/updated on: September 3, 2025 at 7:41 am
Update: Monday, the Rusk County Sheriff’s Office has identified the suspect as William Taylor George
RUSK COUNTY – The Rusk County Sheriff’s Office said that a man was arrested on Friday after allegedly shooting another man’s truck near a Bunny’s convenience store.
According to our news partner KETK, they received a call on Friday morning from a man who was sitting in his truck when a white man in another vehicle started shooting at him. The two drivers had reportedly got into a verbal argument a few minutes before when they were inside the Bunny’s convenience store at the intersection of Highway 64 and Highway 42.
The driver waited for the victim to leave the parking lot of Bunny’s and shot at the victim’s truck several times while it was stopped at a stop sign, according to a post from the sheriff’s office.
Officials said the shooter fled the scene in a black Cadillac CTS four door car. Rusk County deputies, Texas Department of Public Safety troopers and the Rusk County Sheriff’s Office Criminal Investigation Division responded to the scene of the shooting and identified the fleeing Cadillac.
The Cadillac was then spotted while heading south by a license plate camera in Nacogdoches County. The Angelina County Sheriff’s Office was notified, they located the Cadillac and the driver was arrested after a short vehicle pursuit in Diboll, according to the Rusk County Sheriff’s Office.Investigators then went to Lufkin to take the driver to Rusk County Jail on a charge of aggravated assault.
