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Um, Climate Demorest, uh, some guy just got shot. >> Okay, where's he at? >> He's laying in the middle of the parking lot. >> This is 911. Uh, what's going on? What's he got on? >> Yeah, I'm at the United I'm at the United Dairy Farm over here off of Dem- uh, Demorest. What's going on? >> 3535 Climate Road. >> My son just got shot. >> Your son just got shot. Who did this? >> Yeah, I don't know the guy the guy just pulled in and shot him. I'm not sure. >> What kind of vehicle is he in? >> Uh, it's a Kia, black Kia. >> Black Kia, was it a sedan or SUV? >> SUV. It's a black SUV. >> You see what he looked like? >> Uh, he's a black guy. I'm not sure. >> And he pulled off which way did he go? >> Uh, I'm not sure. >> At 8:11 p.m. on August 13th, 2024, a frantic call reaches 911 dispatch in Columbus, Ohio. A man is on the line, his voice shaking as he tells the operator that his teenage son has just been shot outside a gas station. The caller says the boy isn't moving. Within seconds, the dispatcher begins sending police and medics to the United Dairy Farmers on Climate Road. >> Who all was here and saw it? >> I was the first one. >> We all was here. >> Sir, can I >> Please don't go anywhere. Anybody who saw this, can I Can you please come over here? >> Ma'am, are you related? >> With me. >> All right, what's your name? >> Um It's through and through. >> Ma'am, are you related? >> I'm related to her. >> Related to her. Okay, can you step over here, please? Go that way. Do you have any weapons on you? >> No. >> Okay. Go ahead and step over here for me. >> Cruiser, please, over here. >> Okay. >> Sit down right here, please, okay? >> Uh-huh. >> You can You can sit on the bumper if you want there. Go ahead and step over here for me, please, okay? Are you Are you related? >> That's my daughter. >> Okay, who's who's with them? Who's with the victim? >> know. I was at the light. >> Okay, but did you see the incident? >> No, but I heard it. >> Do you mind sitting on that bumper of that cruiser right there, please? >> The victim was identified as 17-year-old Gage Anderson. He was shot in the head. Despite emergency responders rushing him to the hospital, Gage Anderson was pronounced shortly after arriving at Grant Medical Center. >> No, I don't even know what happened, but when I saw somebody laying there, black guy with the white shirt on. >> I think they were arguing. Like we were right here. >> I heard a pop, pop, and then I looked over and the dude was laying there. That's all I I heard. And I saw >> Did you guys have any idea who that was? >> No, but I know my stuff. Whatever you need. >> So, you saw a suspect, possibly? Okay. You're with him? >> Yeah, this is my car. I was just pulling in here to turn around to go meet my dad at my apartment complex. >> All right. >> The guy about hit me as I was pulling in, and he was pulling out right here. He was in an all black tinted Audi. He had his window down. >> All black all black Audi? >> Yeah. >> Okay, and he took off it was >> He went that way. >> Okay, and it was it was it one guy or two guys or how many guys? >> It looked like it was two guys, but >> What two guys on foot or one guy still in the car? >> car. I saw a little bit of the altercation. So, I was on the phone and I was looking this way cuz I really wanted her to stop at UPS, but then I seen them fight. I seen them fight. I seen the black dude yoke him up. He was trying to get the white boy was trying to get in the car and he yoked him up and then my mom when I turned over to look at my mom like, "Mom, they're fighting." She said she just heard a pow and a pow. >> Only one shot. >> And I was like, "You I was like, you heard shooting?" I didn't see shooting. >> I'm going to ask any of you guys if you have dreads. >> And my friend was like braided or something. It was a longer hair to the shoulder to a little past the shoulders. We pretty much came down here and he was kind of like coming up behind us. We were like we stopped and he had his wife. >> Yes. Did you have any words with him or was there any >> No, nothing was said that I know of. We just we pretty much came down the road we were coming down the road and his car was beside of us. And like I was on the I was in the left the left lane and he was in the right lane and we just came straight down. And I was sitting in the car he comes flying behind us back here and I was like is this guy following us? And as soon as he pulled in as soon as he pulled in he cut right in like kind of like where my car was parked at he knows right in on it. >> Where is your Is that your white car? >> No, the Buick. He knows right in on me and he jumped out and he had his hand in his in a black sweater and a hoodie. He had his hand in there. He goes, "Well, tell us your problems." And he goes, >> You got something to say? >> And it's like try to like when the hit him try to And he goes, "You want to shoot me?" And he [ __ ] messed with me. He gets up and try to hit him again. He jumps out. And then when he jumps out he grabs a hold of him and he just ran back and like pop. >> He jumped out, hit the guy. >> No, no, no. I'm sorry. They just Literally just when the guy The guy got up I was sitting out in the car. the door and that's when they kind of like jumped out. So when he jumped out he shoved him against a white Kia. And the dude like put his hand out of He took his hand out of his pocket. >> Okay. >> And that's when he >> Okay. >> Hey, Macy. >> You from around here? You got a wife from Kentucky? >> I must be for work. I work I've been up here for 16 years working. All right, this is like my buddy is my buddy lives right down the road here that's where we was heading to. >> And where were you at when this happened? >> in the store getting ready to pay for my gas and was over parked over there on pump four which is where I still am and my great grandson and my wife is still sitting there. >> Still sitting there? >> Yeah. >> Okay. >> Uh but they was in the car. I went in to pay for my gas and I didn't have my wallet with me or my card for them to scan so I was headed back out before I when I turned to walk out I saw a black male uh with a beard uh go mustache, dreads, and a yellow shirt jump in a black Kia and pull off real fast. I didn't see an actual shooter. I just see him run out the store jumped in the car pull off. >> Okay, so it's a black male with a you said a beard? >> A beard. >> A beard. >> A beard, mustache, and braids. Yellow shirt. That's That's all I saw. I saw him jump in the car and and head out. I didn't I didn't see the shot. When I came out, I just saw the the young man lying on the on the ground. That's all I saw. >> All right. >> Within minutes of the shooting, officers begin searching the area for the suspect vehicle described by seen leaving the gas station. Police quickly tracked the vehicle to a nearby neighborhood near Linwood Road where they move in to stop it. The driver was identified as 30-year-old Skyler Burley. And female passenger, later identified as Anetta Cooper. >> Have a seat here, don't move. Somebody says, "Hey, this is going on." We all come. You know how it is. >> Yeah. >> And we're going to check this out and make sure you're not being sarcastic. >> Yeah, I think we got a warrant out. >> And we're going to lock him up, all right? Who's at home there? That we got to talk to. >> My uh my girl, my daughter. >> Your girl and your daughter? >> Yes. >> Yep. All right, man. Okay. Hop on in there for a minute. Yeah. All right. Watch your knees. >> Officers detain the female passenger while Skyler Burley is placed under arrest as detectives begin piecing together what led to the deadly confrontation just moments earlier. >> Now, I understand your relationship with Skyler is Do you have a common child together? Okay. What started all this? >> I I don't know. I guess road rage because they were they were both like bickering back and forth and then they went to the gas station and then from there >> Okay. Well, let's start Let's start Where Where were you guys coming from? >> Taco Bell cuz I was taking my baby from Taco Bell for dinner. >> Okay. This the [clears throat] 7-year-old, right? >> Yes. Cuz she was staying there with my sister. >> Okay. >> And like I said, it was like road rage, I guess. >> Okay. What What What started the road rage? Where did that happen at? >> [clears throat] >> And we understand it was some type of traffic thing. >> And we're staying What is that right there? They're arguing. And then next thing you know I Skyler went like this and then dude ran out the car and attacked him. And then after that, I heard gunshots and then I'm telling him to stay there. We can't leave the scene, but he he's driving and he takes off and then we end up at my sister's house and then you guys >> Okay. >> Aneta Cooper admits the confrontation didn't start at the UDF. It began on the road as a heated exchange between two vehicles. And when they pulled into the gas station, the situation quickly escalated. Cooper confirms the argument turned physical and moments later a gun was fired. Her statement helps investigators piece together the final moments before the confirming that what started as road rage ended in a fatal decision. >> What happened and why? When when did this when did this start? >> I can't give you a time. >> I I in general are you was it still light out? >> Yeah. >> Okay. >> Yes, it light outside. Um I'm going um towards the gas station. I just bought some um Taco Bell for my daughter. >> Okay. >> Um going towards the gas station. The gentleman cussed me off. We end up going to the same spot. Um I hopped out. Dude in the passenger side talking um talking like I say disrespectful or threatening. So >> you How do you mean? >> Like like saying he's going to take me. So I um I got the car and I talked to the driver and I told the driver like um man I don't basically telling him I don't want no problems. Basically letting him know that it wasn't cool. He almost hurt both of us. Dude get offended that's in the passenger side. Um he jumps out at me. He start swinging. So the first thing I'm like first thing I did was I did shoot him. >> Okay. >> But it was I was terrified for myself and I was defending myself. >> Do you remember how many how many times you >> Once. >> Once. Do you know where he was struck? >> I do not. right. >> Um that's good. I I appreciate your honesty in that. >> I ain't going to lie to you, man. >> Okay. >> After [clears throat] his arrest, Skyler Burley was taken to jail and later appeared in court on a charge. During his arraignment, a judge set his bond at $1.5 million. Prosecutors said the shooting stemmed from a road rage confrontation that escalated in the parking lot of the gas station. Months later in April 2025, Burley pleaded guilty to with a firearm specification and was sentenced to 18 years to life in prison.

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