Road rage shooting on I-95 kills woman riding in car with her husband, NC cops say

A 47-year-old Pennsylvania woman was killed just shy of the South Carolina border when another driver shot into her car Thursday, according to local law enforcement.

Julie Eberly and her husband, Ryan, were driving on I-95 near Lumberton in North Carolina when another driver fired into the passenger door, the Robeson County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement on Facebook. Lumberton is about 96 miles south of Raleigh.

A bullet struck Eberly, who later died at UNC Southeastern Hospital, according to the sheriff’s office. Her husband wasn’t injured. The couple was reportedly on their way to the beach and had left their six children at home with grandparents.

The incident, which the sheriff described as a road rage shooting, happened around 11:40 a.m. near the 23 mile marker.

“The victims vehicle came close to the suspect vehicle during a merge into a lane,” the sheriff’s office said. “The suspect vehicle then came along side the victim’s passenger side. The suspect rolled down his window and fired multiple shots into the passenger door, one of which struck Julie Eberly.”

Law enforcement is still searching for the driver, who was reportedly in a gray or silver 2010 Chevrolet Malibu or Impala with dark tinted windows and chrome around the window frame. The car was last seen driving south on I-95 toward Exit 22, crossing over the bridge and heading into Lumberton.

Anyone with information on the shooting is asked to call the Robeson County Sheriff’s Office at 910-671-3170 or email sheriff@robesoncoso.org.

“This was an innocent family from Pennsylvania headed to the beach for a vacation,” Sheriff Burnis Wilkins said. “Thankfully they had left their six children at home with grandparents but now these kids have to live with the thought of their mother being murdered on in such a cowardly and senseless way.”