The death of six people in the northern state of Michigan killing spree has been linked to an Uber driver who has been arrested officials and media reports.
Kalamazoo County prosecutor Jeff Getting said, the 45-year-old suspect, Jason Brian Dalton, is set to appear in court Monday to face charges of murder.
Uber also confirmed that Dalton was a driver for the ride-sharing company, adding he had passed a background check and had no criminal record. "We have reached out to the police to help with their investigation in any way that we can," Uber's chief security officer, Joe Sullivan, said in a statement.
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The Police are certain that Dalton who was apprehended at 12:40 am local time Sunday is the gunman who opened fire at three different locations in the city of Kalamazoo, killing six people and seriously wounding two others.
Matt Mellen a local resident said he was Dalton's passenger just a few of hours before the rampage began, and was taken on a hair-raising ride. "We were driving through medians, driving through the lawn, speeding along and when we came to a stop, I jumped out the car and ran away," Mellen told CBS affiliate WWMT. "He wouldn't stop. He just kind of kept looking at me like — 'Don't you want to get to your friend's house' and I'm like, I want to get there alive." Mellen said he jumped out of the car at 4:30 pm, and called the emergency phone number 911. He told his fiancee what had happened and she posted Dalton's picture on Facebook as a warning to others. "We're looking into his connection to Uber and whether or not he was picking up fares in between the shootings," Kalamazoo Public Safety Chief Jeff Hadley said, according to CNN.
Source: CNN
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