San Bernardino Family Offers Reward to Catch Their Son’s Killer

The killing of 21-year-old Travis Bradell Warren has been described as a senseless murder in every way. Warren, an aspiring journalist and college student, was gunned down in a “road-rage”-incident four months ago.

The shooting took place at a high-traffic intersection on East Hospitality Lane.  Despite the fact that there must have been at least several witnesses, nobody has come forward with any information to help in the investigation.

The Warren family has decided that if they are to get any information at this point they are going to have to offer an incentive for witnesses to come forward.  The family is now offering a $10,000 cash reward through WeTip, an anonymous crime tip line for information that leads to the arrest of their son’s killer.

Here is what is known about the case.

It was Friday, Jan. 22, and Travis was with his girlfriend driving in San Bernardino. Travis was in the front passenger seat and somewhere near 285 East Hospitality Lane he got into a verbal dispute with another man that became very heated. Someone in that car fired several shots from an unknown weapon striking Travis multiple times. The car then sped away.

The only description the police have according to sources close to the investigation is that the driver of the car was male and the vehicle was a black hatchback of unknown make and model.

The Trace, a nonprofit news organization that tracks gun violence, found incidents of drivers brandished a gun in a threatening manner or fired a gun at another driver or passenger rose from 247 incidents in 2014 to 620 in 2016. In the first six months of 2017, they tracked 325 incidents – nearly two a day.

According to 2016 statistics from the American Automobile Association’s Foundation for Traffic Safety, nearly 80% of polled drivers expressed serious aggression, anger or road rage while driving at least once in a year. It also reported:

• 51% of respondents tailgate on purpose. That’s 104 million American drivers who ride another car’s bumper.
• 47% of those polled yell at other drivers. That’s 95 million hollering hot heads spewing defamatory drivel.
• 45% of drivers honk in anger or annoyance, which means 91 million of us lay on our horns.
• 33% or 67 million drivers gesture obscenely.
• 49 million of us – that’s 24% – try to block another vehicle from changing lanes.
• Half of those people, or 12% of all drivers, actually cut off another driver on purpose.
• 8 million drivers, or 4% of us, will get out of our cars to confront the other driver.
• And, finally, some 6 million of us (3%) are guilty of ramming another car on purpose.

According to experts the best way to avoid road-rage incidents is to be a courteous driver.  However if you are being aggressively pursued by another driver it is best to try to ignore them, keep driving at a normal rate of speed and if possible get away from them while driving safely and by calling 911 and reporting the driver.