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Uber Eats Driver Shoots and Leaves

posted by Fnord666 on Monday February 19 2018, @10:25PM   
from the what-a-buckhead dept.

takyon writes:

An Uber Eats driver is being sought in Atlanta, Georgia for allegedly shooting a customer after a dispute and fleeing the scene:

An UberEATS driver was on the run Monday after a man who ordered a meal from the online food delivery service was killed in a late night shooting in Atlanta over the weekend, police told local media.

The 30-year-old man was shot multiple times after exchanging words with the driver in Atlanta's Buckhead neighborhood at about 11:30 p.m. Saturday, police told Atlanta's NBC affiliate WXIA, channel 11.

Also at WSB-TV, 11Alive, and AJC.

Update: Driver accused of shooting customer had been with Uber Eats for 1 week

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• Re:What a surprise, the shooter was black. Re:What a surprise, the shooter was black. (Score: 3, Informative) by archfeld on Tuesday February 20 2018, @01:07AM (2 children)

  by archfeld (4650) <treboreel@live.com> on Tuesday February 20 2018, @01:07AM (#640378) Journal

  Yeah like shootings don't happen in Australia, or Somalia, or Finland, or Norway. With 327 million people our rate of shootings is really actually quite low when compared to say Mexico or many other countries in South/Central America. Not to excuse any shootings, one is too many and a horrible tragedy like the Florida school shooting is awful, especially when the laws in place would have prevented that asshat 19 year old from getting a gun if only the FBI had followed existing regulations and laws. Twice in recent memory someone was able to pass the FBI background check because procedures were not followed. But I am not willing to surrender my ability to protect and defend myself to an authority that is potentially 20 minutes or more from responding.

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• Re:What a surprise, the shooter was black. Re:What a surprise, the shooter was black. (Score: 4, Informative) by NotSanguine on Tuesday February 20 2018, @03:20AM (1 child)

  by NotSanguine (285) <{NotSanguine} {at} {SoylentNews.Org}> on Tuesday February 20 2018, @03:20AM (#640427) Homepage Journal

  Yeah like shootings don't happen in Australia, or Somalia, or Finland, or Norway. With 327 million people our rate of shootings is really actually quite low when compared to say Mexico or many other countries in South/Central America. Not to excuse any shootings, one is too many and a horrible tragedy like the Florida school shooting is awful, especially when the laws in place would have prevented that asshat 19 year old from getting a gun if only the FBI had followed existing regulations and laws. Twice in recent memory someone was able to pass the FBI background check because procedures were not followed. But I am not willing to surrender my ability to protect and defend myself to an authority that is potentially 20 minutes or more from responding.

  Right. So the US has fewer murders per capita than a bunch of third-world shitholes. Hooray for us! we're (slightly) less bloodthirsty than other murderous places.

  The data [wikipedia.org] shows that murder is more popular in the US than pretty much *any* civilized country. And is even more popular in such glitzy places as Lybia, Egypt and a host of other wonderful, peaceful places.

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  • Re:What a surprise, the shooter was black. (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 20 2018, @02:27PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 20 2018, @02:27PM (#640639)

    Australia, or Somalia, or Finland, or Norway

    a bunch of third-world shitholes

    Flamebait masterpiece.

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