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On July 4, 2020, a road rage confrontation in Spotsylvania, Virginia, ended with two brothers dead. Joe Swick, 38, and his brother Fred Swick were found deceased in their vehicle in the middle of Fox Run Drive after a dispute with another driver led to a physical fight and gunfire.

Authorities say the other driver, 48-year-old Danny Lee Huffman, was driving with his 17-year-old son and had been drinking that day. Huffman told deputies he had been cut on the arm during the altercation, then retrieved a firearm and fired multiple shots into the brothers’ car. Huffman placed the 911 call; deputies found the Swick brothers dead and later recovered the weapon submerged in a pond on Huffman’s property.

Huffman was tried and convicted of two counts of first-degree murder and two counts of using a firearm in the commission of a felony. He was sentenced to 206 years, with all but 48 years suspended; an appeal in 2024 was unsuccessful.

Did anyone in Spotsylvania see or hear anything about the road confrontation on Fox Run Drive that night?