On the evening of July 5, 2021, a road rage encounter in Troy, Michigan, ended with the death of 55-year-old Detroit Fire Department Lieutenant Francis Frank Dombrowski. According to reports, Dombrowski, a 29-year department veteran, was driving when a dispute developed with occupants of a white Jeep Cherokee on Rochester Road; both vehicles later pulled into a Shell station at Rochester and East Wattles. Confrontation continued in the parking lot, and Terell Josey, who exited the Jeep, produced a handgun and shot Dombrowski multiple times. Dombrowski was taken to a nearby hospital and died of his injuries; he is survived by his wife and five siblings.

Josey and the Jeep’s female driver turned themselves in the next morning. Josey, 27 at the time, was charged with open murder, a felony firearm count, and carrying a concealed weapon. Surveillance footage reportedly shows Dombrowski stepping from his car and approaching Josey before shots were fired, and a toxicology report later recorded a blood-alcohol level of 0.22 for Dombrowski. Anyone with information about the incident or who knew Lieutenant Dombrowski is asked to come forward.