Man Gets 15 Years in Prison in Selma Road Rage Case

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By CBS 8 News

A Dallas County man has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for a case of road rage that ended with a stabbing in a Selma grocery store.

 

Circuit Judge Jack Meigs imposed the sentence Tuesday on Robert Fitts, who was convicted of first-degree assault in March.

 

District Attorney Michael Jackson said this was a case of road rage where Fitts thought the victim, Eldred Fuller, cut him off. They both ended up at a Selma grocery store, where their encounter escalated to words being exchanged and then Fitts stabbing Fuller in the stomach.

 

Fuller was taken to a Birmingham hospital and required two surgeries. The stabbing occurred in October 2008. Fitts maintained it was self-defense because he felt threatened, but the jury disagreed.

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