JACKSON COUNTY, Ga. — One man is dead and another is in custody after an argument led to a shooting on Interstate 85 in Jackson County early Monday morning.
The Jackson County Sheriff's Office said their deputies responded to a call on the interstate around 3 a.m.
Deputies said the caller was near mile marker 144 in the northbound lanes of I-85, but he wasn't able to give authorities information about what was going on.
Officials arrived to find a panel truck with an attached U-Haul trailer resting in the emergency lanes. Samuel Sanders, 71, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania was sitting in the driver's seat unresponsive with a gunshot wound to his head, the sheriff's office said.
Emergency responders then rushed Sanders to the hospital, where he was later pronounced dead.
The sheriff's office said a man ran away from the scene. That's when a manhunt ensued and Georgia State Patrol troopers, the Jefferson Police Department, and the Commerce Police Department all helped locate the suspect, investigators said.
Hours later, shortly before 9 a.m., authorities found the 67-year-old Pennsylvania man inside a building adjacent to I-85 near some chicken houses.
Deputies said the two men were heading back to Pennsylvania after working a job in Georgia when they got into an argument and the 67-year-old shot Sanders, killing him. The man was taken into custody and is facing charges.