Trucker Kills Himself After Taunts on CB

ICARD, N.C. — A truck driver committed suicide after passing motorists used citizens band radios to egg him on during a three-hour standoff with police.

Crisis teams trying to talk David Carroll out of killing himself inside the cab of his 18-wheeler heard several radio taunts prodding him to do it, officials said Friday.

Carroll, 32, shot himself to death with a rifle Thursday in the cab of his truck, parked at a convenience store about 180 miles east of Charlotte.

Police were talking to him over the CB because he refused to accept a cellular phone. Truckers passing nearby on Interstate 40 were mocking Carroll on the same channel, saying he didn’t have the guts to pull the trigger, police said. Carroll recently separated from his wife, and he told police he was distraught over the breakup.