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2. The killer had a previous charge of road rage, but charge was dismissed

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Past charge for accused Joe McKnight killer was for road rage, at same intersection of Thursday slaying
BY RAMON ANTONIO VARGAS | [e-mail] DEC 2, 2016 - 8:08 PM (24)
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Ramon Antonio Vargas

Ten years before he admitted to fatally shooting former NFL pro Joe McKnight on a Terrytown street on Thursday, Ronald Gasser was accused of chasing down and punching a man at that same intersection in a bizarre incident sparked by a complaint about his erratic driving, according to the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office.

That 2006 incident was said to have been the culmination of a road rage incident, as McKnight's killing was, the Sheriff's Office said Friday. Another man told The New Orleans Advocate that he, too, has had a couple of hairy encounters with Gasser, though he never reported them and they couldn't be independently verified.

Gasser's first known brush with authorities happened after a 51-year-old man from Marrero called 911 in Jefferson Parish to report that another man was driving a red pickup truck unsafely on Holiday Drive, in the New Orleans neighborhood of Algiers. The truck had a phone number that motorists could call to report unsafe driving, and the man dialed it, the Sheriff's Office said.

Gasser picked up and told the caller he was the person driving the truck in question, the Sheriff's Office said. An argument ensued; the caller then pulled into a gasoline station to refuel his car at the intersection of Holmes Boulevard and Behrman Highway, just past the Jefferson Parish line, the Sheriff's Office said.