Big Rig Driver Shot in Head, Truck Stolen

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Atlanta police are looking for a pair of suspects they believe hijacked a tractor trailer and shot its driver in the head on Tuesday morning.

The driver, Warren Hardie, told police he was stopped at a red light on Marietta Road at approximately 2:30 a.m. when two suspects armed with a sledgehammer and a handgun smashed the window of his cab and tried to throw him out of the vehicle, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports.

According to WSB-TV, the truck was stopped at Marietta Road and Perry Boulevard outside the Norfolk Southern rail yard close to the western side of the Georgia Tech campus when the incident occurred.

Hardie said that he began struggling with the suspects when one of them shot him in the head, the AJC said. After Hardie realized he had been shot, he abandoned the cab and ran back to the rail yard. The suspects drove off in the 18-wheeler, eventually abandoning the cab at a DeKalb County elementary school. The trailer was not attached when the cab was found, the AJC said.

Police told the AJC that the missing trailer is white in color and bears JB Hunt livery. The trailer’s serial number is 231665. According to WSB-TV, the trailer was carrying furniture at the time of the incident.

Hardie was taken to Grady Memorial Hospital and treated for a gunshot wound which grazed his head, the AJC said.

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