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North Carolina emergency physician charged with shooting two sisters in Virginia road rage attack

9/7/2026

A Charlotte emergency physician with a clean medical board record faces felony charges after Virginia State Police say he fired into a moving Jeep on Interstate 77, wounding two sisters, ages 12 and 20.

The professional biography and the criminal allegation pull in opposite directions, and what sits in the gap is a sequence of events that authorities have not yet publicly explained.

Richard Thomas Arriviello, 61, was driving north in his Mercedes-Benz around 8:50 a.m. 22 when the shooting erupted roughly three miles north of the North Carolina-Virginia state line.

State police said in a press release that Arriviello fired into the Jeep, striking both sisters in the legs. Both were airlifted to a hospital; their injuries were not considered life-threatening.

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