'Disconcerting' rise in road rage shootings resulting in death or injury, data shows

So far this year, a person has been shot and killed or injured in a suspected road rage incident on average every 18 hours in the United States, data shows.

In March, the victim was a mother of six children traveling on a North Carolina interstate. Then in April, it was a man driving with his wife near the Naval Observatory in Washington, DC. In May, a 6-year-old boy in California on his way to kindergarten. These are just some of the people shot and killed in suspected road rage incidents in recent weeks. Others have suffered severe injuries, including a toddler left with a critical head injury following an apparent dispute over "somebody not letting somebody into a lane of traffic," Chicago police said of the April shooting. So far this year, as of June 7, a person has been killed or injured in a suspected road rage shooting on average every 18 hours in the United States, according to an analysis by Everytown for Gun Safety of data compiled by the Gun Violence Archive.