Indianapolis man gets 60 years for a road rage shooting that killed a man

INDIANAPOLIS — An Indianapolis man has been sentenced to 60 years in prison for a road rage, shooting on the highway in which a central Indiana man was killed as he returned home after a long day at work.

A Marion County judge sentenced Dion Kimbrough, 24, on Friday after a jury convicted him in August of murder and unlawful possession of a firearm by a highly violent criminal in the case surrounding the fatal shooting of Eli Hickerson.

Prosecutors said Hickerson, 30, of Carthage, was a passenger in a car on July 18, 2022, when Kimbrough shot him. Kimbrough was driving a box truck as the two vehicles traveled along Interstate 70 on the far east side of Indianapolis.

“Mr. Hickerson tragically lost his life due to an unacceptable act of road rage on his way home from work,” Marion County District Attorney Ryan Mears said in a statement.

Kimbrough’s attorney, Israel Nunez Cruz, has said his client acted in self-defense and that he plans to appeal his conviction.

The driver of the car told investigators he saw a box truck driving erratically on Interstate 465 before it began following his vehicle as he entered I-70, prosecutors said. The driver said the box truck then approached his car and the driver of the truck fired several shots.