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WEBVTT EASED INFORMATION ON ASUICIDE THAT HAPPENED AFTER ASHOOTING EVENT ON ROUTE 283.MIKE STRAUB HAS THE LATEST.MIKE: A SHOOTING INCIDENT ANDSUICIDE THE POLICE BELIEVE ARERELATED.WE WERE JUST BRIEFED.67-YEAR-OLD MICHAEL LORTONWEREDRIVING EASTBOUND ON 283 AROUND6:30 ON SUNDAY EVENING WHEN HEWAS STRUCK BY A BULLET IN HISBACK JUST PAST THE SALONGA EXIT.POLICE BELIEVE THE SHOOTING WASA RANDOM ACT.>> THERE WAS A SHOT, THEREHAPPENED TO BE A VEHICLE THEREAND WE HAVE A RANDOM VICTIM WHOWAS FROM -- STRUCK.WE'VE NOT FOUND ANYTHING TOINDICATE THE SHOOTER NEW OFANYTHING.MIKE: A CAR WAS REPORTED,DRIVING RECKLESSLY.THE CAR -- THE POLICE FOUND THECAR IN A MATTER OF MINUTES.HE EVENTUALLY STOPPED IN APASSENGER GOT OUT OF THE VEHICLEAND APPROACHED POLICE AND SAIDTHE PERSON IN THE CAR WASSUICIDAL, AND THEN A SHOT WASFIRED FROM INSIDE THE CAR ANDTHAT MAN WAS FOUND DECEASED INTHE CAR.'S NAME HAS NOT BEEN RELEASED,BUT HE IS A 33-YEAR-OLD MAN FROMDELAWARE.AS FOR THE VICTIM, HE WASTREATED AND RELEASED FROM THEHOSPITAL.

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Police are investigating a random shooting and suicide that happened Sunday night on Route 283 in Lancaster County. - Download the WGAL app - Video: Watch Mike Straub's report Police said the incident started around 6:30 p.m. on Route 283 near the Salunga exit. The shooter, who has been identified as Raymond Wiley, 33, of Wilmington, Del., was driving with a passenger west when he reportedly fired out the window, striking another driver, according to investigators. The victim, Michael Lohr, 67, was hit in the upper back. He was taken to the hospital and has since been released. Officials say the shooting appears to be entirely random. Shortly after the shots were fired, another driver on Route 283 called 911 to report a reckless driver. Manheim Borough Police responded and followed the car as it “traveled north on Hossler Road at a high rate of speed,” according to the Lancaster County District Attorney’s Office. “The vehicle abruptly stopped at Hossler and Colebrook roads. The male passenger exited the vehicle and reported to police on scene the driver had a gun and was suicidal. A single shot was then fired. Police found the driver had shot himself in the head. He was pronounced dead at the scene,” reads a statement from the DA’s office. “Preliminary information links the man who shot himself was the shooter in the previous incident on Route 283.” Police say Wiley had been “dealing with personal issues.” Police said they also interviewed Wiley’s passenger and they do not believe he was involved in the shooting. If you have any information that could help investigators, you can call East Hempfield police at 717-898-3103 or Manheim police at 717-665-2481.