Monday, March 14

Uber driver says Uber app made him carry out Michigan killing spree

Jason Dalton's video arraignment on murder charges following a Kalamazoo shooting spree February 20. (credit: WXYZ-TV Detroit)

An Uber driver accused of killing six and wounding two others during a February 20 carnage spree is said to have told Michigan investigators that the Uber app on his phone made him do it. The app, he said, controlled his "mind and body" and told him where to go and when to kill the day he is accused of carrying out the Kalamazoo County murders.

The Detroit Free Press, citing police records it obtained, said the 45-year-old suspect, Jason Dalton, told the authorities that a symbol resembling the devil's head popped up on the ride-sharing app when he opened it last month on the night of the murders.

"Dalton described the devil figure as a horned cow head or something like that and then it would give you an assignment and it would literally take over your whole body," according to police reports released Monday to the Free Press by the Kalamazoo City Attorney’s Office.

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