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Posted: Mon Feb 22, 2016 9:06 pm
http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/21/us/michig ... ing-spree/Kalamazoo Uber driver picked up fares between killings, source says
Kalamazoo, Michigan (CNN)The man accused of killing six people and injuring two more in a Saturday evening shooting rampage in Kalamazoo, Michigan, was an Uber driver who picked up and dropped off passengers between shootings, a source with knowledge of the investigation told CNN.
The source, who is not authorized to speak to media, said investigators believe Jason Brian Dalton was even looking for fares after the final shooting of a nearly seven-hour killing rampage.
CNN affiliate WWMT spoke to a man who says he was a passenger of Dalton's just before the shootings started.
"We got about a mile from my house, and he got a telephone call. After that call, he started driving erratically, running stop signs," Matt Mellen told the affiliate. "We were kind of driving through medians, driving through the lawn speeding along and then finally, once he came to a stop, I jumped out of the car and ran away."[I had a similar experience in a cab in NYC once...]
Mellen said he called the police: "He was surprisingly calm, I was freaking out."
The ride-sharing company confirmed to CNN that Dalton, 45, was an Uber driver and said he had passed a background check.
"We are horrified and heartbroken at the senseless violence in Kalamazoo," Uber's chief security officer Joe Sullivan said to CNN in a statement. "We have reached out to the police to help with their investigation in any way that we can."
