photo by: Chris Conde/Journal-World

Police work the scene of a shooting at Hy-Vee, 3504 Clinton Parkway, on Tuesday, May 17, 2022.

Lawrence police have named the two men who were killed on Tuesday night in a parking lot shooting at west Lawrence’s Hy-Vee grocery store and said Wednesday that the deaths stemmed from an apparent road-rage incident.

Zachary Michael Sutton, 22, and Monty Ray Amick, 53, both of Lawrence, died, according to the Lawrence Police Department, which issued a news release Wednesday and also spoke with the press.

Police investigators believe an initial interaction between the occupants of two vehicles occurred near 23rd and Harper streets. At some point Amick reportedly made a remark about the other vehicle’s loud tailpipe, which apparently upset those in Sutton’s vehicle.

The vehicles traveled west on 23rd Street, where a confrontation occurred between the parties near 23rd and Iowa streets.

The vehicles then continued west on Clinton Parkway, where the incident culminated in the shooting at the Hy-Vee parking lot, 3504 Clinton Parkway. Sutton was reportedly a passenger in a 2006 white Ford F-150 truck, and Amick was the driver and sole occupant of a 2007 blue Nissan XTerra, according to police.

photo by: Chris Conde/Journal-World

Lawrence Police Chief Rich Lockhart speaks during a press conference on Wednesday, May 18, 2022, about a shooting that left two men dead at Hy-Vee, 3504 Clinton Parkway.

Chief Rich Lockhart said Wednesday afternoon that the vehicles eventually parked nose to nose in the Hy-Vee parking lot. Then Sutton and Amick got out of the car with handguns and shot each other. Sutton died at the scene, and Amick, who was taken to an area hospital, died shortly thereafter. Police said cameras in the grocery store parking lot captured multiple muzzle flashes from the guns.

Lockhart said the two handguns — one for each man — were the only guns found at the scene. There were no indications that the men knew each other prior to the shooting, Lockhart said.

Two people who were with Sutton — a driver and another passenger — were questioned and released Tuesday night, police said. Lockhart said they were not currently suspected of a crime.

Police are asking anyone who observed the altercation at 23rd and Iowa or the shooting at the Hy-Vee parking lot to call Lawrence Police Department Investigations at (785)830-7430.