A reward, and a plea from the family of the man shot and killed on Highway 169 Tuesday night.
Family members of Jay Boughton, 56, gathered with Plymouth Police Friday to offer a reward they hope leads to the killer of the beloved youth baseball coach.
"Jay was a great man," said Stephen Robinson, Boughton's brother-in-law said as he was overcome with grief. "This is the world we live in, people. Is this the world we want to pass to our children? Is it?"
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Boughton was killed while driving southbound on 169 with his 15-year old son. The father and son were returning home from a youth baseball game Tuesday night. The shots came from a large SUV that had pulled alongside Boughton's vehicle.
Plymouth Police have said the two vehicles were involved in some sort of altercation, but Friday, Plymouth Police Chief Erik Fadden pointed out that it was not a situation of road rage, or mutual aggression.
"This was not a mutual kind of road rage or altercation between two drivers. This was simply a senseless act by someone who we will find."
Plymouth Police released a video that pieces together traffic camera footage of the suspect SUV as it travelled west on I-694 and then south on Highway 169.
Investigators still say the vehicle is a light-colored full-size SUV, possibly a Ford Expedition or Chevy Suburban or Tahoe.
A $1,000 reward is now offered for information leading to the person who fired the shots.