Six dead in Kalamazoo spree killing
Fox News reports that this Jason Dalton fellow went on a rampage in Kalamazoo last night, killing six people and wounding several others with his semi-automatic weapon. The police don’t know what motivated this freak to engages in this sort of behavior. Apparently, according to MLive, he was an Uber driver who took a passenger on a terrorizing ride just before the shooting. When the rider finally got out of the car, he reported the driver and police didn’t seem too interested in the report, according to his fiance, Mackenzie Waite, who posted about the ride;
“They sideswiped a car blowing through the stop sign at Henderson Castle and West Main Hill, and the driver continued driving,” Waite wrote. “Then this man proceeded to drive 80 mph down West Main swerving in and out of oncoming traffic.”
Waite posted that the man was acting “completely normal” while driving erratically, and that her fiance pleaded with the driver to pull over but he refused.
“911 was called but surprisingly they didn’t seem all that concerned.”
It looks like the fellow was completely off his rocker. At another link MLive describes the sequence of events. No rhyme nor reason for the shootings.
Category: Crime
I’m actually surprised Jason Dalton is still alive. Usually these melt-downs check out either by their own hand or suicide-by-cop.
Thoughts and prayers to the family and friends of the victims, and a speedy recovery for those injured.
Great! Just when I had signed up to ride on the Uber system. My choices for drivers were Mike Tyson, Charles Mansion and any of the crew at the Oregon debacle. How could I go wrong? Surely they check the drivers before assigning them to anyone. So the guy was driving 80 MPH in town, timed deliveries do count. So he hit someone, they probably just got in his way. So he was weaving in and out of traffic ignoring pleas of the passenger to stop. I mean it’s not exactly as if he had claimed to have been a hero in the armed forces.
Autocorrect strikes again, I see.
Mansion was supposed to be Manson, amirite?
Here’s a link on Manson, for the younger readers who have no idea who he is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Manson
I nominate Charles Manson to be Jane Fonda’s limo driver!!!
Still waiting for Fox News to find a veteran link to this turd. Something nice like one week of boot camp PTSD.
How could this have happened? Uber is a gun free business.
Correction: Uber is an anti civil rights business.
Some have said that Dalton listed himself as a “Progressive” on FB, before his page was taken down.
I can understand why FB would do that.
Should have been an “s” following the “a” in my email address in the previous post.
Uber driver goes berserk, drives too fast in traffic, scares passenger to pieces with crazy moves in traffic.
Hmm… except for the gun stuff, he sounds like a typical Chicago cab driver. In Chicago, the passengers beat up the Uber drivers, but the Uber drivers don’t get out of their cars and shoot people.
My sympathies to the families of those who lost their lives to this idiot.
Sounds like a cabbie who gave us a ride from Miami International to our hotel a few years back. The guy put the passenger side wheels up on a concrete barrier, then bounced us down onto the pavement. 3 times!!!!!
Try taking a cab ride in Cairo, Egypt sometime. I honestly thought I was going to die.
If you really want a white knuckle cab ride, take a one somewhere in Seoul!
Bali Bali, Odashi!
It’s the gun’s fault. It’s always the gun’s fault. Oh, and the NRA, and George Bush. That about covers it. More laws needed stat.