Former Ohio State star Stillwagon charged in road rage shooting

Jim Stillwagon, an All-American defensive lineman who played on Ohio State’s 1968 national championship team, was charged on Monday with shooting a pickup truck driver during an extended incidence of road rage, the Columbus Dispatch reported. Police told the Dispatch the road rage confrontation between the two parties lasted for at least 14 miles. Stillwagon, 63, was riding a motorcycle and is accused of shooting at and assaulting a pickup truck driver Sunday afternoon near downtown Delaware, Ohio. One of the shots grazed the driver, Richard Mattingly, 41, in the head. Mattingly was flown to a hospital and checked out Sunday night. Stillwagon faces one count of felonious assault. He was released from jail Monday afternoon after a judge set bail at $350,000. A lawyer for Stillwagon told the Dispatch that Stillwagon shot in self-defense. “There was some type of conflict between the two where the truck potentially cut off the motorcycle or vice versa,” Bruce Pijanowski, interim Delaware police chief, told the Dispatch. …

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