A road-rage confrontation in Lawrence, Kansas, on May 17, 2022, ended with both men who exchanged gunfire dead in a grocery store parking lot. The incident began at 23rd and Harper when a remark was made about the loud exhaust of the white Ford F-150 carrying 22-year-old Zachary Michael Sutton, a White/Caucasian male, and a blue Nissan XTerra driven by 53-year-old Monty Ray Amick. The vehicles continued westbound, with further aggressive driving and verbal exchanges at 23rd and Iowa, before the dispute culminated in the Hy-Vee parking lot at Clinton Parkway and Kasold Drive, where both men exited their vehicles and fired handguns at each other.

Police arrived around 9:41 p.m. and found Sutton deceased; Amick was critically injured and later died at a local hospital. Investigators recovered two handguns and used surveillance footage from Hy-Vee and a nearby business to reconstruct the sequence. Officers interviewed the Ford’s driver and another passenger, a store employee, and a bystander who tried to help. Authorities later announced no criminal charges were anticipated and closed the investigation after both men died.

If anyone witnessed the confrontation or has additional information about what led to the exchange of gunfire, please share details with the discussion.