New details are emerging about an early morning road rage homicide

SALT LAKE CITY – New details are emerging about Monday morning's deadly shooting on Highway 201 in Salt Lake City. The suspected driver is now in the Salt Lake County Jail.

According to court documents, a traffic altercation between two drivers was so violent that one driver was accused of pulling out a handgun and shooting the other driver up to 15 times.

He died right there on the highway and the driver who police said shot him, 44-year-old Thomas Long, is now behind bars.

KSL TV obtained the court documents late Monday evening. They said both men were driving east on 201 Monday morning when the victim's truck clipped Long's SUV.

Dash camera video from another car showed Long becoming angry, struggling against the truck, checking the brakes and then abandoning it. The two cars appeared to intentionally collide several times.

The video shows Long pushing both cars into the concrete barrier near 1000 West. Long then pulled out a gun and shot the victim so many times that 15 shell casings the soldiers had found were left on the ground, along with a pistol in a bag.

Long allegedly told police officers it was self-defense. He claimed the other driver pulled something from their waist, at which point he responded and shot them.

Thomas Long is being held in the Salt Lake County Jail on multiple charges including:

• Road rage murder, a first-degree felony;
• reckless driving including road rage, a Class B misdemeanor and;
• aggravated assault including road rage, a third-degree felony.