A Manteca man has been convicted in the 2023 fatal shooting of an Amazon semi-truck driver along a freeway in California's Central Valley, an attack prosecutors described as a "senseless act of violence."

The San Joaquin County District Attorney's Office said Wednesday that a jury found Andrew Christopher Watson, 29, guilty of second-degree murder with a firearm enhancement and shooting at an occupied vehicle, also with a firearm enhancement.

The charges stem from a June 15, 2023, shooting that led to the death of Ilkhom Shodiev , a 37-year-old truck driver from North Carolina.

According to investigators, Watson merged onto northbound Interstate 5 from Highway 120 near Lathrop just before 12:45 p.m. that day. Dash camera footage showed his vehicle swerving and cutting into the slow

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