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

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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  • (Score: 2) by TheRaven on Tuesday February 20 2018, @10:03AM

    by TheRaven (270) on Tuesday February 20 2018, @10:03AM (#640571) Journal
    It's a well-known aspect of a news cycle: if one event happens and a newspaper decides that it's news, then other events in the same category are then treated as news by other outlets for a while. It's one of the big problems with forming opinions from news sources: you don't notice the background levels of events and the reporting levels rarely correspond to the real events. A hundred shootings won't make the news, but if one dies then the next ten will as well.
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