He backed over fellow semi driver at Wichita truck stop. Jury says he’s guilty
A Sedgwick County jury on Wednesday convicted an Oklahoma man of vehicular homicide for running over a fellow semitruck driver during a quarrel over a truck stop parking spot last year.
Travis Lyle Briscoe, 47, is scheduled for sentencing on July 9 in the Aug. 13, 2025, death of Abdelmuttalib K. Mohamed at the Love’s Travel Stop, 1504 E. 21st St. in Wichita.
Briscoe was tried this week on one count of second-degree reckless murder. But jurors found him guilty of the lesser, misdemeanor crime after hearing evidence, Sedgwick County District Attorney’s Office spokeswoman Lyndsee Stover said.
Court records say Briscoe backed over Mohamed after they quarreled over a parking stall. Briscoe told authorities he thought Mohamed was leaving the stall when he moved to back into it.
But Mohamed yelled that it was “my spot, my spot” and laid down behind the semitrailer, court records say.
Briscoe claimed he couldn’t see Mohamed and thought the man had moved out of the way when he began backing up his truck around 5:20 p.m.
Video from that day showed Briscoe getting out of his truck and yelling “lay down (expletive)“ at Mohamed before he ran over him, court records say. But Briscoe’s lawyer argued that Mohamed voluntarily positioned himself behind the truck in an attempt to save the parking spot and Briscoe didn’t see him.
Mohamed, 57, was from Georgia.
