HELENA, Mont.—A Montana man has been arrested after witnesses said he intentionally and repeatedly swerved his car at three motorcycles in south-central Montana, running one off the road and killing its driver, officials in Carbon County said.
Prosecutors want to charge Michael J. Gambale with one count of deliberate homicide and three counts of attempted deliberate homicide, according to a motion filed Wednesday in state District Court in Red Lodge. He was arrested in Cody, Wyoming, on Tuesday afternoon and faces an extradition hearing there on Friday, court officials said.
A silver car first tried to run two brothers off the road while they were riding their motorcycles near the town of Rockvale early Tuesday afternoon, court records said. The car hit one of the riders on the leg, but they were able to avoid being forced off the road, they told investigators. One man reported the driver made a U-turn and traveled on the wrong side of the divided highway to pursue him, forcing him to jump a curb to avoid being struck….