Man charged in Kalamazoo shootings sues Uber

The latest Uber driver fiasco is no laughing matter, however: It involves a driver who allegedly shot and killed six people and claimed that his own phone’s Uber app was mind controlling him.

The Kalamazoo County Sheriff’s Department provided WZZM-TV around 100 pages worth of documents related to the deadly rampage in which Jason Dalton is charged in response to a Freedom of Information Act request.

The police said that the unfortunate case of Dalton’s random shooting transpired on February 20 while performing his duties as an Uber driver.

He told investigators that the company’s mobile app made him “like a puppet” and that it would “take over your whole body”, according to documents released Monday and published by WDIV.

The man told police he joked with Dalton “because he never would have imagined that an Uber driver would actually be the suspect in the shootings”. “Dalton said that it starts out that you have to follow the navigation, but it gets to the point where you don’t have to drive at all, the vehicle just goes…” “Dalton explained how he has experienced a full body takeover that is how he can understand the other mass shootings”. He then left the house in the Chevrolet HHR she’d been driving, telling her he was going to stop at the ATM and withdraw a couple of hundred dollars. She was critically wounded but survived.

Investigators say they are still trying to determine a motive.

A third incident happened 15 minutes later in the parking lot of a Cracker Barrel restaurant near Interstate 94, where four people were killed.

After the shootings, MI authorities began searching for a dark colored Chevy HHR SUV with chrome wheels. He was also carrying a folding knife.

The same day Dalton bought the Walther, records show he sold a Smith & Wesson.40-caliber handgun to On Target.

During a search of Dalton’s home, investigators reportedly discovered a cache of weapons in his basement, including bullets, gunpowder, 11 long guns, two handguns and knives.

“Dalton proceeded to tell us that he couldn’t imagine when he had bought them all that he would use them in this manner”, according to Moorian’s report.

Uber’s chief security officer, Joe Sullivan, confirmed to local news outlets that Dalton was a driver and said he passed a background check. The company said it was “horrified and heartbroken at the senseless violence”. Our hearts go out to the victims’ families who have to live with the consequences of his bad crimes.