It was pure chaos on a Texas highway.
A deranged man armed with a pitchfork turned a Monday morning commute into a nightmare when he leaped into the bed of a moving pickup truck on Interstate 45 in Houston, smashed the rear window and stole the vehicle, sparking a wild, nearly 100-mile police chase that ended with him getting shot by troopers.
Shocking dashcam footage of the rampage has gone viral, showing the stolen red pickup truck slamming into a Texas Department of Public Safety SUV and shoving it off the road.
According to the Harris County Sheriff’s Office, the bizarre incident unfolded around 7 a.m. on June 29 when 43-year-old Bruce Cantu was spotted walking through heavy traffic on the North Freeway near the North Loop, brandishing a pitchfork.
A driver in a red Ford F-150 slowed down to avoid hitting the man. Big mistake.
Cantu jumped into the truck bed, used the pitchfork to smash out the rear window, climbed inside the cab, assaulted and threatened the driver, and then forced him out before taking off with the vehicle.
Cantu later ditched the F-150 in Huntsville, grabbed another red pickup truck, and kept going, leading cops on a multi-county pursuit northbound on I-45.
The chase stretched nearly 100 miles before ending at mile marker 163 in Leon County.
That’s when the suspect rammed a state trooper’s SUV, pushing the marked vehicle into the grass near an exit.
The terrifying collision was captured on dashcam video from another driver on the highway. The footage shows the red pickup smashing into the side of the black trooper SUV, damaging it badly as it veers off the road.
Officers opened fire. Cantu was struck and had to be airlifted to a hospital in critical condition.
He now faces multiple charges across at least two counties, including aggravated assault in Harris County and aggravated battery in Walker County.
The original truck driver was treated for non-life-threatening injuries.
Texas heat or not, this guy took “road rage” to a whole new, fork-tastic level.
