A father has been charged with fatally shooting his adult son with Down syndrome ... about 17 hours after he had used a tractor backhoe to take his son’s body about 2 miles away to a remote ...

HOSPITAL. THE DRIVER OF THE TRACTOR TRAILER WAS NOT HURT. ALSO IN OCONEE COUNTY, DEPUTIES SAY A MAN IS FACING CHARGES AFTER A SHOOTING ALONGSIDE INTERSTATE 85. THEY SAY DEPUTIES WERE CALLED TO THE ...

That shooting happened around 8:30 p.m. Sunday ... Police were trying to stop a white tractor-trailer and get the driver out. That's when witnesses said the truck started ramming police vehicles.

Investigators say Michael told them he took his son's body and put it in the front loading bucket of a backhoe tractor ... claimed to have used during the shooting the night before.