Police say that the suspect—32-year-old Stephen Davis from Anderson—called 911 at around 5:45 p.m. on November 4 to inform them that he had just thrown one bike onto Interstate 67 in Madison County, Fox 59 reported.
Officers from the Anderson Police Department responded to the call, and when they found Davis on the overpass he told them that he had thrown the bike in order to cause a fatal accident, according to the court documents.
Davis then allegedly said that he only regretted what he had done because throwing the bike off the overpass had not caused a “ten-car pile-up” with bodies on the ground.
He also told police that he had thrown another bike onto the interstate earlier that day in the early hours of the morning.
Davis repeatedly mentioned that he wanted to kill people because he hated everyone. He also said that he had been illegally evicted from his home by police and wanted to get arrested so that he could go to prison for several years, where he would be guaranteed “housing and food.”
Officers managed to locate both of the bikes on the interstate. One of them appeared to have suffered damage from a vehicle, the court documents show.
Police detained Davis and took him to Madison County Detention Center. He has been charged with criminal recklessness and is scheduled to appear in court on January 27, RTV6 reported.
“A person who recklessly, knowingly, or intentionally performs an act that creates a substantial risk of bodily injury to another person commits criminal recklessness,” according to Indiana law.
Anderson Police Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
In 2017, two people were killed along I-75 in separate high-profile incidents as a result of people throwing heavy objects off an overpass.
In October 2017, 32-year-old Kenneth White was killed when a 6-pound rock crashed through the windshield of his van as he was driving along the Interstate in Michigan, north of Detroit.
A group of five teenage boys subsequently confessed to having thrown rocks at multiple cars on I-75, including the one that killed White, the Detroit Free Press reported.
Just two months later, Marquise Byrd, 32, was killed in similar circumstances on I-75 near Toledo Ohio after a group of four teens dropped a sandbag from a bridge, NBC News reported. The sandbag struck Byrd, who was sitting in the passenger seat of a car at the time.
