Teen Road Rager Learns A Lesson

Added: 2026-06-08

[00:00:00]In December 2023, [music] an Ohio family drove to an airport looking for safety after a road [music] rage incident terrified them.

[00:00:09]They called Cleveland police after a teenager pointed a gun at them while driving on the highway.

[00:00:15]>> [music] >> This you in the vehicle with her? Okay, where was y'all coming from?

[00:00:18]>> We were actually coming from I was on I was turning to go to our house.

[00:00:24]I was coming from Troy Avenue, Cleveland. We were trying to go on the towards our downtown way. We were trying to go She wouldn't let me over, then she went like this with her phone.

[00:00:33]And then the boy in the back seat he pointed a [ __ ] gun.

[00:00:37]>> He pointed a gun at you?

[00:00:38]>> He pointed a gun. Where's the car?

[00:00:42]Where's the car?

[00:00:42]>> I know we're we're we're out here with them now.

[00:00:44]>> And they they followed you from where?

[00:00:46]>> They followed us >> Followed from from the Steelyard restaurant.

[00:00:50]>> Steelyard restaurant?

[00:00:51]>> That's when she did her her phone like that and then we were keep going.

[00:00:55]>> I kept going.

[00:00:56]>> And then they zoomed in front of us.

[00:00:57]>> And stopped on the middle of freeway.

[00:00:58]>> Stopped on the middle of the freeway.

[00:01:00]>> And then we got on the side of them. The two dudes in the back seat rolled their windows down and did this with the guns.

[00:01:06]And I seen they had a long extended clip.

[00:01:09]>> Both of them?

[00:01:09]>> Yeah, and it looked like um >> I'm scared of my >> a 9 mm.

[00:01:13]>> And y'all don't know them at all? You had no problems with nobody?

[00:01:16]Okay.

[00:01:16]>> I feared for my life for nothing.

[00:01:17]>> Um would y'all be willing to press charges if we go and arrest these gentlemen here? Okay.

[00:01:22]>> Can I get your information?

[00:01:24]>> I'm scared of my life.

[00:01:25]>> 9 mm?

[00:01:26]>> And y'all don't know them at >> I don't never seen them.

[00:01:28]>> Wait, are you like a Uber You like a Uber or >> No, that's my wife. That's my wife.

[00:01:33]>> Oh, that's your wife. Okay, okay.

[00:01:34]>> A short time later and not too far away, [music] officers located the suspect vehicle and conducted a felony traffic stop.

[00:01:47]>> Driver, put your window down. Black camera, put your window down.

[00:01:51]>> Pull it over with orders.

[00:01:51]>> Put your hands out the window. Driver, put your hands out the window.

[00:01:55]All passengers, put hands out the window.

[00:02:04]Tell all of them to put their hands out the window.

[00:02:13]How many is in the car, sir?

[00:02:15]How many is in the car?

[00:02:17]Three?

[00:02:20]Front passenger, put your hands out the window.

[00:02:27]Tell that passenger to put his hands up on that dashboard. Tell the one in the back to put his hands on the back seat.

[00:02:35]Put them hands up in the air, high.

[00:02:43]Don't move.

[00:02:52]>> Yep.

[00:02:54]>> Driver, with your right hand, open up that door.

[00:02:57]With your right hand, keep your other hand out the Put your right hand on that driver's door. Keep your other hand outside.

[00:03:04]And come out that car.

[00:03:09]Put them hands up.

[00:03:13]Walk back.

[00:03:14]Put them hands sky high, man. Sky. Walk back.

[00:03:18]Back.

[00:03:19]>> I'll walk back to the >> Bring it back.

[00:03:27]Stop.

[00:03:31]Start walking to your left.

[00:03:43]>> All right.

[00:03:43]All right. I'm sorry about that. We'll get this together.

[00:03:53]Somebody want to do that?

[00:03:55]>> Back up.

[00:03:58]>> Negative. She was in a white four-way on the roadway.

[00:04:00]>> Four-way.

[00:04:02]>> I'm not moving.

[00:04:05]>> One door.

[00:04:07]>> Put your left hand on the door and step out.

[00:04:10]>> Any weapons on you I need to know about?

[00:04:12]>> He's by door one. They pulled up out here.

[00:04:15]>> Could I stand back here?

[00:04:18]Drop that.

[00:04:19]Drop that.

[00:04:21]Put your left hand back here.

[00:04:24]Put your right hand back here.

[00:04:26]Put your palms together.

[00:04:28]>> Passenger, put your right hand on that door and step out of that car.

[00:04:39]Put your hands up.

[00:04:41]Put your hands up.

[00:04:43]Up. Put your Put your hands up. Keep walking.

[00:04:51]>> Keep walking straight back. Straight back. Straight back.

[00:04:56]>> Turn your straight back.

[00:05:01]All right right there.

[00:05:03]Go to your knees.

[00:05:07]Is there one more person?

[00:05:08]>> He on crutches. He on crutches.

[00:05:09]>> Okay.

[00:05:10]>> Yeah, he got crutches.

[00:05:12]>> Are there any weapons in that car to your knowledge?

[00:05:14]>> No, not that I know.

[00:05:15]>> Not to your knowledge. Okay. Do you have any ID on you?

[00:05:19]>> No.

[00:05:19]>> No? Okay.

[00:05:24]How old are you?

[00:05:25]>> I'm about to turn 18.

[00:05:26]>> You're turning 18 soon?

[00:05:27]Okay.

[00:05:28]And what's your name?

[00:05:29]>> Elijah Williams.

[00:05:31]>> Okay.

[00:05:34]Put your Put your feet.

[00:05:36]Put your feet. Okay.

[00:05:38]Straight back. I'll put her in the back seat.

[00:05:40]>> Okay.

[00:05:48]>> Passenger, >> He's on crutches.

[00:05:58]Keep all your hands visible. Up. Up. Up.

[00:06:01]There you go.

[00:06:04]Keep them Keep them up.

[00:06:08]I cleared the car.

[00:06:13]Okay.

[00:06:30]>> I what?

[00:06:40]>> Uh why can't you walk, I mean, why are you on crutches? Uh what happened?

[00:06:44]Okay. All right.

[00:06:46]What we're going to do is Do you have any weapons?

[00:06:49]Okay. How about in the car?

[00:06:51]Uh not to your knowledge?

[00:06:52]>> I don't have no weapon. I don't have no weapon to my knowledge. I don't even get into stuff like that.

[00:06:56]>> Okay.

[00:07:10]Okay. What I'm going to do is, okay, I mean, we're going to help out support you, okay? We're going to sit you on the ground, okay? But I'm going to uncuff you first.

[00:07:17]>> I can't sit on the ground.

[00:07:18]>> You can't sit?

[00:07:19]>> I got to get in I got to sit in the car or the car is hot.

[00:07:27]I don't have no gun.

[00:07:29]>> No gun?

[00:07:29]>> I don't have no gun.

[00:07:33]It was another person in here. We dropped them off before we came up here.

[00:07:37]>> Did he have a gun?

[00:07:38]>> I don't know. They just came and picked me up from my auntie's house.

[00:07:43]>> So you So you totally unaware of gun?

[00:07:45]I mean that's what you're telling us?

[00:07:47]>> No.

[00:07:49]>> Okay.

[00:07:57]Okay. We're going to lock them in so they don't tighten up on you.

[00:08:05]Okay.

[00:08:07]All right.

[00:08:08]We're going to check out the back seat area.

[00:08:11]>> You carry me over there or something?

[00:08:13]>> I can't carry you, uh young man.

[00:08:16]Uh So uh what we going to do is we're just going to keep you Yep, just keep you over here.

[00:08:22]>> I think I I'm going to fall off.

[00:08:23]>> Okay. Okay, hold on.

[00:08:25]All right.

[00:08:25]>> You just broke your leg or your knee or >> Okay.

[00:08:32]All right, just stay like that.

[00:08:34]Yep.

[00:08:35]Firearm.

[00:08:39]Right there.

[00:08:41]Yep.

[00:08:45]Empty clip.

[00:08:47]No, no, stay like that, young man.

[00:08:48]>> I don't know.

[00:08:49]>> Okay. Stay Stay Stay right there.

[00:09:00]Are there any other weapons in this vehicle?

[00:09:01]>> I don't know. They I told you they came to pick me up from my >> Okay.

[00:09:04]All right. I mean you know about this weapon.

[00:09:06]Right now you have all the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law, okay?

[00:09:12]You have a right to counsel, okay? If you cannot afford counsel All right. Coun- Hold on. Hold on.

[00:09:19]Counsel will be uh you know, I'll give Okay.