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Florida doctor accused of killing truck driver in road rage incident admits he was having a 's**t day' and was frustrated and tired due to a poor night's sleep

  A   Florida   doctor will be arraigned on charges in connection to a fatal road rage shooting of a Boston delivery truck driver in   Vermo...

 A Florida doctor will be arraigned on charges in connection to a fatal road rage shooting of a Boston delivery truck driver in Vermont more than two years ago, allegedly blaming it on having a 's**t day.' 

Jozsef Piri, 49, of Naples, Florida, was arrested on a second-degree murder charge for the death of Roberto Fonseca-Rivera, 44, on November 1, 2019, Vermont State Police said.

Fonseca-Rivera was found shot to death in the Katsiroubas produce truck he was driving on Route 103 in Rockingham. The two men did not know each other, according to police.

At the time, Piri lived in Connecticut and was returning home from his property in Londonderry, Vermont. He was driving immediately in front of Fonseca-Rivera just before the shooting, police said, based on surveillance footage, GPS data, photographs and other information.  

At the time of the incident, the victim had been talking to a friend on the phone when he started complaining about the way the car in front of his truck was being driven recklessly, according to court documents.

The friend told police he heard Fonseca-Rivera take a 'deep inhale' before a sudden, loud noise popped off, sounding as if the victim's cellphone dropped onto the floor. 

Roberto Fonseca-Rivera, 44, was complaining about Piri's reckless driving while talking to a friend on the phone. At the time of the shooting, the truck driver was delivering produce to a Vermont restaurant.

Roberto Fonseca-Rivera, 44, was complaining about Piri's reckless driving while talking to a friend on the phone. At the time of the shooting, the truck driver was delivering produce to a Vermont restaurant.


Interviewed a day after the shooting, Piri had allegedly told police that he hadn't slept well the night prior to the incident and was irritated by his discovery of the costs linked to his renovations at his secondary home. 

The doctor, who didn't admit to the shooting in that interview, said he had been having a 's–t day,' according to the court documents. 

Following multiple searches in Piri's car, police found a magnetic gun holster on the driver's door and a total of five guns in his Vermont and Connecticut homes. One of them was matched with the one that was used to fatally shoot Fonseca-Rivera.

An affidavit related to the case states that 'the bullet came from outside the cab of the [produce] truck, and it was fired from in front of the truck.' A 9 mm caliber handgun that was found by investigators had the 'same general rifling class characteristics' as the bullet found in Fonseca-Rivera's neck.

Fonseca-Rivera¿s body was found in the driver's seat of this Katsiroubas Bros produce truck. Bullets were found in the back of his neck when police were at the scene of the crime

Fonseca-Rivera’s body was found in the driver's seat of this Katsiroubas Bros produce truck. Bullets were found in the back of his neck when police were at the scene of the crime

Investigators also checked Piri's phone and discovered a Google search on a news article that claimed the truck driver's death was 'suspicious,' according to the court documents.

His phone's search history from the days before the shooting had allegedly been deleted.

At the time of the deadly road rage incident in 2019, Piri was a practicing family physician at Hartford Hospital.

Prior to his arrest on December 16, he was working at Physician's Regional in Tampa.

He is currently awaiting extradition to Vermont, although the exact date for that remains unknown. 

The doctor's trial date also remains unknown. If he is found guilty in court, then Piri could face life imprisonment with a presumptive minimum term of twenty years. 

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