AUGUST 17 "POETIC JUSTICE"
He once killed a man in a road rage
incident. Now, he has died in one.
The Washington
Post
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WTVT/Fox 13 Gary Durham in 2002, after he was charged with manslaughter in
a road rage killing. Durham died Wednesday
following another road rage altercation in Florida . After a traffic mishap in Florida ’s Hillsborough
County on Wednesday, Gary
Lynn Durham got out of his car and exchanged heated words with another driver. Their
argument ended violently, with Durham
dying from a gunshot wound on the side of the road, police said. When investigators
dug deeper into the case, they found a sad twist: Durham had recently been released from prison
for killing a man in road rage confrontation in 2001. Police say Durham punched a 48-year-old cancer survivor in the face
at an intersection as the two men argued 15 years ago in Tampa . The punch killed the man, Tim Gibbs,
and Durham
was convicted of manslaughter. He was sentenced in 2002 and spent the next
decade behind bars, according to the Tampa Bay Times. The judge also required
Durham to
take anger management classes. Now, he is dead
in a similar incident. “It’s a shame that he didn’t learn his lesson while in
jail,” Nancy Gibbs, Tim Gibbs’s widow, told the Tampa Bay Times after learning
Durham had died in a road rage incident. “I’m just glad I don’t have to worry
about him or running into him somewhere. It’s ironic that he died in the same
way as my husband.”
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