Driver speeds off after beating 69-year-old to death in a road rage fury, MO cops say

A family is mourning after a man was beaten to death Sunday during a suspected road rage incident on a Missouri interstate, police say.

Around 11:30 a.m., a black Dodge Ram pulling a trailer stopped behind a blue Ford F-150 on westbound Interstate-64 in O’Fallon, Missouri State Highway Patrol said in a Twitter post.

Witnesses told police the driver of the Dodge had gotten into a fight on the side of the road with the man in the other pickup before speeding west down the interstate and turning south onto DD, according to police.

Police arrived at the scene after receiving a call about a fight-in-progress and found a 69-year-old man — later identified as Ron Lawson, per KSDK — unconscious.

He was taken to a hospital, where police say he died of his injuries.

Now, Lawson’s family is grieving.

“Whoever did this to him left him for dead,” Jason Lawson, Ron’s son, told KSDK. “Side of the road, that is inhumane, no matter who you are (or) what you do, you don’t do that to another person.”

“I’ve got a little boy that has the same birthday as my dad’s birthday and now I have to celebrate and mourn on my son’s birthday every year because that piece of us is gone,” Leah Lawson, Ron’s daughter, told KTVI.

Police released images of the Dodge Ram and asked for the public’s help in identifying the driver.

According to the St. Charles Missouri Traffic Scanner page on Facebook, police located the truck and driver in St. Charles County on Monday, but police say they are still looking for the vehicle and driver. The investigation is ongoing.

Police are asking anyone who has surveillance cameras and lives on Route DD in St. Charles County to look over their footage from between 11:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. on Sunday to see if the vehicle is visible.