Sentenced: Man Shot Dead In Road-Rage Attack After Splashing Windshield Fluid On BMW

[Sugar Cookie]

An Oregon father of two was gunned down in a suspected road-rage incident last week after he accidentally splashed windshield wiper fluid on a passing BMW, according to his partner.

Dennis Anderson, 45, and Brandy Goldsbury, 46, were traveling from the beach in Lincoln City on the Oregon coast back to their home in Tigard around 8:30 p.m. July 13 when they spotted a black BMW 3 Series trying to pass them, according to reporting in The Oregonian.

Goldsbury told the paper that her partner sprayed wiper fluid on the windshield of their car, and that some of the liquid may have landed on the BMW.

“I was just like, ‘Ignore him, he’s just having a bad day,'” she recalled telling Anderson of the other motorist.

The BMW sped away, but a few miles later, at a rest area near Otis, Goldsbury said, she and her partner spotted the same car parked on the side of the road.

Anderson drove by the BMW, which then started following him, according to Goldsbury, driving close to the rear of their car as if trying to hit it.

“And then it would go into oncoming traffic and kind of swerve towards us, like trying to push us to the side of the forest,” she recalled.

After several apparent attempts to drive Anderson off the road, Goldsbury said, she told him to pull over and call 911 for help, which he did as he got out of the vehicle.

That is when, Goldsbury said, the driver of the BMW stopped parallel to them and opened fire on their car.

“The last thing that [Anderson] said was, ‘Oh my God, they shot me,'” Goldsbury said.

Goldsbury unbuckled her seatbelt and got out of the car to get help.

“By the time I got to him, blood was coming out of his mouth,” she said of her mortally wounded partner.

Despite all the life-saving efforts, Anderson was pronounced dead at the scene. By then, the driver of the BMW had fled.

The Oregon State Police, which is investigating the fatal shooting, said the suspected gunman is a short man in his early 20s with a medium build and dark hair.

As of early Thursday, no arrests have been made.

Dad shot dead in road-rage attack after splashing windshield fluid on BMW

Dennis Anderson, 45, a dad-of-two from Oregon, was shot and killed in a suspected road rage incident last week, after some of his windshield wiper fluid may have landed on a passing BMW.

nypost.com

 

[Satanica]

I hope they got the killer's plate number.

 

[BuffettGirl]

Seriously? Over some soapy fucking water? We have some really stupid people out here...

 

[roadsidehorror]

Watch how you interact out there folks. You can’t tell how people are by looking at them and there is ALWAYS someone meaner than you, tougher than you and colder than you. ALWAYS……

 

[knockout]

They could be a bit more descriptive
Funny how BMW divers in general have a reputation as assholes
Most assholes like to drive with their seat all the way down, so the short man thing is just a guess, I didn’t see where he got out of the car

The Oregon State Police, which is investigating the fatal shooting, said the suspected gunman is a short man in his early 20s with a medium build and dark hair.

 

[Symmachus]

He killed a guy because he did not want his windshield fluid? Even visibly expressing anger over that is too petty.

Fitting punishment: gag the BMW owner and strap him to a chair, and force him to watch a circle of cars spraying copious amounts of windshield fluid on his own car... and on him! Hey PIXAR, this is actually a great film premise if you want the Cars films to have an X-rated spinoff!

 

[CRWX]

My Dad told a joke when I was a kid. "What's the difference between a porcupine and a BMW? The porcupine has pricks on the outside."

 

[cubby]

It wasn't the windshield washer fluid, it was the perceived disrespect that the BMW driver felt when the fluid hit his windshield.

Everybody's temper has a hair trigger these days. YOU DON'T DISRESPECT ME AND GET AWAY WITH IT!!!!!!

 

[Brillig]

Goldsbury told the paper that her partner sprayed wiper fluid on the windshield of their car, and that some of the liquid may have landed on the BMW.

I don't believe this. I think they squirted wiper fluid on the guys car because they thought he was an asshole. That's a dangerous game these days, and they lost. People are crazy now, with hair triggers, and nothing is safe.

 

[thuumpr]

Wiper fluid? That's no reason for road rage...

Throwing pee in a cup out the window... Now that's a reason for road rage.

 

[Sugar Cookie]

A 25-year-old man pleaded guilty except for insanity to second-degree murder on Thursday for killing a Tigard man he gunned down on the side of a highway in a road-rage encounter two years ago.

Polk County Circuit Judge Rafael A. Caso sentenced Justin Nathaniel McAnulty to the Oregon State Hospital, committing him to lifetime supervision by the Psychiatric Security Review Board.

McAnulty fired nine shots at Dennis Anderson, 45, from the seat of his black BMW 550 on July 13, 2022, after trailing Anderson’s Subaru Forrester on Oregon 18. Anderson and his partner, Brandy Goldbury, had been headed home from Lincoln City.

Anderson had been trying to get away from McAnulty as both headed east on the highway. McAnulty had driven around Anderson’s Subaru and passed Anderson and then later waited on the side of the road before pulling out to again follow Anderson closely. Anderson then turned off the highway onto a gravel shoulder so Goldsbury could call 911.

McAnulty pulled up parallel to the Subaru and Anderson got out of the car, according to police. Anderson was standing on the shoulder when McAnulty immediately pointed a 9mm handgun at him and fired, police said.

McAnulty was an Oregon State University engineering student whose life “went completely awry” in his early 20s with the onset of an unspecified schizophrenia spectrum diagnosis, according to his lawyer, Benjamin Kim.

“Words can’t describe how sorry I am. I didn’t know what was going on in my head,” McAnulty said in court. “I’m so sorry. I’m still trying to figure out why I did what I did.”

The judge accepted the guilty except for insanity plea and found McAnulty, because of his mental disorder, either lacked substantial capacity to appreciate that his actions were criminal or to adhere to the law.

“I have said many times that the justice system in this country is named incorrectly because there is no justice in a case like this. Justice would be having Mr. Anderson back, and the court cannot do that,” Caso said. “And so I apologize to the family members, the victims in this case, because there is no justice for you.”

Polk County District Attorney Aaron Felton issued a statement, expressing his displeasure with the outcome of the case. He urged the state’s Psychiatric Security Review Board to not allow McAnulty’s release from the state psychiatric hospital “to protect the community.’'

“Although both the state’s and defense’s experts reached the same conclusion about the defendant’s mental status at the time the shooting, today’s outcome is extremely disappointing,” Felton said. “While McAnulty’s guilty plea at long last takes responsibility for killing Mr. Anderson, I strongly believe that Mr. McAnulty presents a risk to community safety and should be securely confined for the remainder of his life.”

Gunman pleads guilty except for insanity in road-rage killing of Tigard man who was driving home from Oregon coast

At sentencing, the victim's partner called the gunman Justin McAnulty a “coward for hiding your misplaced rage behind a deadly piece of steel.”

www.oregonlive.com

 

[the cat did it]

Word to the wise-anyone starts following you and trying to run you off the road-DO NOT PULL OVER, DO NOT GET OUT OF THE CAR, call 911 EN ROUTE (yup break the law for that if you can't do it hands free) and drive to the nearest police department/fire station, more likely than not the idiot road rager will keep on going...happened to me once-it worked

 

[thuumpr]

Word to the wise-anyone starts following you and trying to run you off the road-DO NOT PULL OVER, DO NOT GET OUT OF THE CAR, call 911 EN ROUTE (yup break the law for that if you can't do it hands free) and drive to the nearest police department/fire station, more likely than not the idiot road rager will keep on going...happened to me once-it worked

Yeah! Do that and Piss Them Off More!

Should get them an insanity plea.

 

[knockout]

As far as the wiper fluid goes, lot of newer autos, shoot that stuff over the top of the car, I can see this couple purposely doing it to the bmw driver because he was to close. Its really stupid to purposely irritate someone obviously already irritated with you on the road