Suspect accused of shooting uber driver identified, remains on the run, police say

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- A antheral is inactive connected the escaped aft Fresno Police accidental helium changeable astatine his Uber operator connected Thanksgiving night.

Investigators accidental 24-year-old Maurice Session and a pistillate got into an Uber adjacent George and Tupman successful Southwest Fresno astir 8 p.m. that night.

"As some of them got into the car, determination was an statement that occurred and during that time, the antheral slapped the operator 1 time," Fresno Police Lt. Bowlan stated.

The 40-year-old operator past told Session and the pistillate to get retired of the car, threatened to telephone the constabulary and began to thrust away; that's erstwhile constabulary accidental Session changeable astatine the unfortunate and his vehicle.

"One of those rounds penetrated the conveyance and really caused a graze coiled connected his head," Lt. Bowlan explained.

The unfortunate was treated and released from the hospital.

He's expected to beryllium okay, portion the fishy remains astatine large.

Session faces an battle with a deadly limb complaint for this incidental and has anterior felonies connected his record.

"There was a home unit incidental earlier and 1 weapons possession complaint earlier but for us, it shows helium is inactive equipped and dangerous," Lt. Bowlan said.

This incidental has enactment the assemblage connected edge, particularly rideshare drivers similar Vikaas Shanker, who's been an Uber operator for astir 10 years.

"When I work this story, it was contiguous daze that could've been me" Shanker stated.

Shanker told Action News connected Friday that the app protects its drivers with exigency capabilities but hopes much is done.

"There needs to beryllium amended vetting of the riders who travel in," Shanker said.

Fresno Police suggest rideshare drivers get a dashcam that could deter violence.

Uber and Lyft operator John Heffron has done conscionable that.

"It's thought that possibly a rider would spot that he's connected video and possibly volition behave himself if he's reasoning otherwise," Heffron stated.

Police accidental the unfortunate did person a dashcam, which they are reviewing.

The pistillate successful this incidental is not considered a fishy astatine this time.

Anyone with accusation connected Session's whereabouts is asked to interaction Fresno Police oregon Crime Stoppers.

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