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On the evening of January 14, 2024, Scott Kracke, a 49-year-old White man, was fatally shot during a confrontation on Interstate 691 in Meriden, Connecticut. Kracke was driving a pickup with his fiancée, Crystal Boganski, when a dark-colored sedan cut in front of them. Boganski told police Kracke brake-checked the sedan after passing it, then both vehicles pulled to the right shoulder and the drivers exited their cars. Witnesses saw the men face-to-face before the other driver fired multiple close-range shots.
State troopers responding to 911 calls found Kracke on the shoulder with multiple gunshot wounds; he was taken to Hartford Hospital and later pronounced dead. An autopsy ruled the cause of death gunshot wounds to the head, torso, and extremities and the manner of death homicide. The suspected shooter was identified as 32-year-old William Lucky Jr., a North Haven resident and corrections officer. He left the scene with his fiancée and their infant, then went to the Hamden Police Department nearly two hours later and reported his involvement, saying the victim appeared to be reaching for something. Lucky Jr. was arrested on January 23, 2024, and charged with murder; he was held on $2.5 million bond and suspended, later terminated, from his job.
Did anyone on I-691 that night see the sequence of events that led to the shooting or the vehicles involved?