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Oregon man killed in road rage attack after splashing windshield wiper fluid on passing BMW

Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News
July 22, 2022

A father was shot and killed in Oregon during a suspected road rage attack, sparked after he accidentally splashed windshield wiper fluid on a passing BMW, his partner revealed.

Dennis Anderson and his partner of 18 years, Brandy Goldsbury, were driving along Highway 18 in the Van Duzer Corridor on July 13 when the incident occurred. They were on their way back to their home in Tigard after a day trip to Lincoln City to celebrate the end of their weeklong COVID-19 quarantine.

Goldsbury said the chaos started after they noticed another vehicle, a black BMW 3 Series, trying to pass them. She recalled that Anderson had just sprayed wiper fluid on his windshield and that some of the liquid may have splashed on the other driver’s car.
“I was just like, ‘Ignore him, he’s just having a bad day,’” she told the Oregonian.

Eventually the BMW passed, but the couple again encountered the vehicle just a few miles down the highway when they arrived at a rest area near Otis.

“We drove by it, and then it got behind us,” she said. “And then when the lanes started to turn to one again, the car started driving really close to the back of us — almost like it was going to hit us. And then it would go into oncoming traffic and kind of swerve toward us, like trying to push us to the side of the forest.”

She said that happened several times before she finally encouraged Anderson to pull over and call 911. He obliged, and stepped out of his car as he dialed. That’s when the BMW stopped parallel to them and someone opened fired from the inside the car, according to state police.
“The last thing that he said was, ‘Oh my god, they shot me,’” Goldsbury recalled.

A man driving past them performed CPR on Anderson until an ambulance got to the scene. He was pronounced dead a short time later.

Police on Friday continued their hunt for the shooter and the vehicle involved. The passenger in the car, who authorities believe fired the deadly shots, is described as a younger male with a medium complexion who is less than 25 years old and small in stature with short, dark hair.

Anyone with information is asked to call the Oregon State Police at 1-800-452-7888.