Transcript for Uber driver grabs gun and accepts another fare: Part 2
Details at rexulti.com. ?????? 88.3 wcxk Kalamazoo. The weekend is here again. Clouds tonight, 35. 46 right now, working our way up to a high of 53. Kalamazoo, where it’s at in western Michigan, is just about halfway between Chicago and Detroit. It’s sort of a bigger town that still has a small town feel. Kalamazoo city contains a lot of businesses, a lot of restaurants. About 100 polar plungers are thawing out tonight after jumping into Turk lake this afternoon. The attraction to Kalamazoo is that it is a safe midwestern town with those midwestern values. The cost of living is good. You can buy a nice house, live in the country if you want, but you’re close to the city. It’s one of those ideal towns where parents dream about raising their families. It’s not the kind of city where you would expect Jason Dalton to go on a rampage. February 20th, I remember so vivid. It was one of our first warm days, maybe in the 40s. And the snow was melting. It was a break from the winter. Tiana Carruthers, a 25-year-old mom, she had one I just remember, happy, smiling, laughing. That’s what the sun does to you, the first warm days here in Michigan, you know? Because you never know when the sun might be out again, for sure. Reporter: Tiana’s afternoon and her whole life would change when Jason Dalton’s route would cross her path in that parking That day, things seemed to start to unravel a bit. After Matt, Dalton goes home and he retrieves his weapons. Reporter: Jason Dalton, after having this terrifying ride, goes back to driving Uber as if nothing happened. The fare there that had called for a ride, her name was Maci. At the time I was 15. Maci ordered an Uber at the memplex. Jason got the call, and so he headed over. The meadows is a typical Kalamazoo county condo apartment complex with a parking lot. A lot of families live there. Kids are outside playing, people are walking their animals. So when Jason showed up, he was looking for the picture he saw in the account, but he didn’t see her. He was calling me and telling me, like, saying I was giving him wrong directions. And was getting upset with me and then had hung up on me. I just kept texting and texting and I was like, “Are you there yet?” Orter: Tiana Carruthers lived at the meadows complex where Jason was coming to pick up his next fare. Talk about being in the wrong place at the wrong time. That was Tiana Carruthers. I was in the house just finishing up a workout, you know, trying to get fit for the summer. And my daughter was with some young ladies. They like, “We really want to go over this girl’s house named Joi.” “Can we go over her house?” I said, “Okay, I’ll walk you over there. We’ll go meet her mom.” I had Joi, kaniya, dorjaye, edriana, salinah, and myself. Reporter: Snow’s melting, and you cross the street. Yes. Reporter: Do you remember what you were talking about? Oh, we’re just talking, laughing, and then all that ended when I saw this car just speeding. Reporter: Right as they were about to cross the street, Tiana and those kids, Jason Dalton pulled up. He just instantly was right in front of me. I just remember a dog barking. Wouldn’t stop barking. He saw Tiana, and he approached her, rolled down the window, asked if she was Maci. He just kept asking me that. “Are you Maci?” I said no. I said it quite aggressively because it was, like, “You’re driving crazy.” Reporter: At this point, it seems he’s angry because he’s having trouble finding this person, Maci. He speeds off after I said no. We continue to walk, but at the time I still have my eyes on him, just, you know, paying attention. He turned the car around, drove back towards her. I saw a car. It was coming fast, but yet slow motion in my head. He took the Glock model 19 out of his pocket. And as he got even with her, she saw him pull the gun. Reporter: Do you remember the moment you saw that gun? How could I forget? I told the girls, “Run. No matter what, you run and do not come back.” She had no idea she was looking in the face of a man who was going to commit these horrible crimes. Maybe if I just keep moving, if I just keep moving, if I keep moving, but he just continued to
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