Police think that a piece of concrete that killed the Tennessee driver was ejected from the bridge

Tennessee police believe that a large piece of concrete that crashed through a driver's windshield and killed him on Tuesday was projected from a bridge and seeks to know who is responsible.

Joe C. Shelton Jr., 54, was on his way to work in I-24 near downtown Nashville on Tuesday morning when the concrete went through his windshield, hit him in the face and hit him. Killed, according to Metro Nashville Police Department.

The Nissan GT-R sports car that Shelton was driving then swept a Toyota pickup truck and hit a guardrail before stopping. No one else was hurt.

"At this stage of the investigation, it seems likely that the concrete block was screened from the Shelby Avenue Bridge," police said in a statement.

The concrete does not seem to have been part of the bridge that might have fallen at random, but rather an element of the "road sidewalk," according to investigators from the Tennessee Department of Transportation.

The police watched the video surveillance of the bridge, but did not identify a suspect. In a tweet, they asked for information anyone who could see something suspicious on the bridge Tuesday morning.

Shelton was traveling to his job at Smyrna's Nissan plant when he was killed, according to the NBC affiliate, WSMV. A spokeswoman for the company told NBC News that he was a sector manager who had been working for the company for 28 years.

"We are saddened to hear of Joe's passing, and our deepest condolences go out to his family, friends and colleagues during this difficult time," the company said in a statement.

In 2017, five boys were charged with second degree murder after the death of a man in Michigan. One of them, who would have thrown a pebble on a bridge, crashed against his windshield.

Four of the boys agreed to accept a lesser charge of manslaughter. The teenager accused of throwing the stone that led to the death of the driver pleaded guilty to second degree murder in October.