{"id":148012,"date":"2026-03-25T13:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T13:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/148012\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T13:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T13:28:08","slug":"road-rage-incident-on-i-81-ramp-in-scranton-leads-to-weapon-assault-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/148012\/","title":{"rendered":"Road rage incident on I-81 ramp in Scranton leads to weapon assault investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA CO. (WOLF)  \u2014 State police are investigating a road rage incident in Scranton that escalated into an assault involving a weapon.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Pennsylvania State Police, the incident happened on February 28 between 6:30 and 7:00 p.m. It began within the city and continued onto the Scranton Central Expressway before ending near the Interstate 81 southbound on-ramp.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators say an unknown passenger in one of the vehicles involved carried out the assault during the confrontation.<\/p>\n<p>A 24-year-old man from Scranton was identified as the victim. Authorities have not released information about any injuries or whether a suspect has been identified.<\/p>\n<p>Two vehicles were involved in the incident: a 2023 black Nissan and a 2018 blue Nissan Altima.<\/p>\n<p>State police are asking anyone who may have witnessed the incident or has information to come forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA CO. (WOLF) \u2014 State police are investigating a road rage incident in Scranton that escalated into&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148013,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-148012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}