Husband Of A Woman Hurt By A Rock Dropped On Car Commits Suicide

The husband of a schoolteacher was critically injured when a rock was dropped on her car from a highway overpass has died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, authorities said.

55 year old Randy Budd was pronounced dead at his Uniontown home late Saturday. His wife Sharon Budd suffered catastrophic head injuries when a 5-pound rock tossed from an overpass crashed through the windshield of her family's moving car on Interstate 80 in central Pennsylvania in July 2014.

Randy Budd said in January that his wife had seven major surgeries and lost part of her brain and an eye. Because her brain was affected, he said, she would require constant care at home for the rest of her life. Four men were convicted and sentenced to prison in relation to the case.

After his wife's accident, Randy Budd became an advocate for requiring fencing on overpasses. Earlier this year, the Budd family helped push through new rules in Ohio requiring any new or rehabbed bridges over most busy highways to be topped with chain-link fencing to deter vandals.