DALTON, Ga. AP – A man connected with a motorcycle gang was airlifted to Erlanger Medical Center in Chattanooga, Tenn., early Thursday after a bomb in his truck exploded.

Police believe a rival motorcycle club planted the bomb in the truck of James Wayne Brock Jr., 27, in retaliation for the death of a gang member. He was getting into his truck to go to work at a local carpet mill when the bomb went off, said Capt. Rick Swiney with the Whitfield County Sheriff’s Office.