Shocking dashcam footage shows an Uber in Chicago coming under fire shortly after the driver left for a routine ride with a female passenger.
Driver John Williams picked up the young woman in West Garfield Park, dubbed the Windy City’s most violent neighborhood. Chicago Sun-Times — Sunday night, video program.
When she got into the back seat, her passenger appeared calm, but then suddenly said, “Go, go, go!” He’s going to fire at the car. ”
“Shooting the car out?” Williams asked as he pulled away.
“Yeah! Go!” she replied, and the driver accelerated, only to hear two gunshots seconds later.
“What was that? What was that?” Williams asked.
“He just fired shots at the car,” the passenger said, adding that he would then call police.
“But why? Man…shit, this is no good!” the driver yelled.
The woman called police while waiting nearby, but “the situation escalated as more gunshots rang out and the car started driving erratically on the road,” Williams told Storyful.
“As I felt increasingly anxious and fearful for our safety, I made the difficult decision to inform. [the passenger] “I couldn’t wait for the police any longer,” he said.
The driver then drove the woman to her destination before continuing on duty.
Chicago police had no reports of a shooting, the newspaper reported Thursday. The newspaper could not immediately contact authorities.
The newspaper reported last year that the crime-ridden neighborhood of about 17,000 people, located a few miles west of Chicago’s Loop business district, is gang-infested and saw a shooting nearly every other day between 2018 and 2023. It was occurring.
The 88-year-old woman, who has lived in West Garfield Park for many years, recently had two bullets smash through her car window on separate occasions, one of which went through the window and became lodged in the stove. She said a piece of concrete hit her.The bullet hit the sidewalk
“I was always calling the police,” Helen King said. “But I don’t care now. … This used to be a great neighborhood with block clubs and parties for kids.”
But now, “my grandchildren are only in the back of the house,” she said.
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