"Very seldom do you hear about this stuff going on. If anything good can be taken from this incident, Sue hopes people will be more careful and more forgiving when they're on the road. It could have been worse for someone else." "I'm glad my dad is OK and everything is fine. "If it was people in the community, I thank them for that," she said. Sue said people heard a description of the men over a police scanner and called authorities to report them. Sue feels helpless back in Eau Claire, unable to help from hundreds of miles away, but she thanks the people who helped to stop Johnson and Batt. "He was a little freaked out that night," she said.īut also harmful was the day and a half of time Ronald lost driving and $600 spent to get his truck fixed so he could continue his run. Sue Henchen said her father, emotionally, is handling the incident better now. The men appeared in court Wednesday by video from the county jail and are to be arraigned Monday. Johnson has been charged with felony criminal endangerment, and Batt has been charged with felony criminal endangerment by accountability. Johnson and Batt are in Yellowstone County Jail in Billings, each on a $15,000 cash bond. "He could have gone off the road and killed himself or killed someone else." All of a sudden he realized he was losing (air) pressure. "After they shot and passed him, they waved at him. "He didn't realize they shot at him," Sue Henchen said. The bullet hit the aluminum frame of the trailer, apparently passed through wiring, and entered the right wheel axle air bag. "He didn't know what they were doing."Īccording to the Billings (Mont.) Gazette, Batt was driving when Johnson fired the rifle into the trailer. "That's when my dad literally tried to scrunch down - to move over in his seat," she said. Ronald Henchen then saw the passenger window of the pickup open and a rifle pointed out the window. Batt, 51, sped up alongside Henchen's truck again. The trucker sped up past the pickup because the scenario was dangerous, Sue Henchen said. Ronald Henchen told his daughter the men in the pickup drove up next to his trailer for an extended period. "He said it was snowing and his trailer might have drifted into the other lane, but he would never try to run someone off the road," Henchen said. Ronald Henchen was not available for comment but Sue Henchen, also of Eau Claire, said her father denied deliberately trying to run anyone off the road. The men, who were arrested, later told authorities that Henchen forced their vehicle into the median and they shot the truck in retaliation. Ronald Henchen was driving his semitrailer truck through Montana on his way to Oregon to pick up freight when his truck was shot at by two men. After being the victim of a road rage incident on Tuesday, Eau Claire trucker Ronald Henchen is shook up but will continue doing the job he's done for more than 30 years, according to his daughter Sue Henchen.
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