Police have arrested an Uber driver over a shooting spree that occurred late Saturday night in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
Six people were killed and three wounded in the attack. Police identified a suspect arrested just after midnight Sunday as Jason Dalton, 45.
Dalton worked as an Uber driver. Uber has confirmed that Dalton was one of their drivers, and said he passed a background check.
Officers say they founds weapons and other evidence in the vehicle, CBS News reports.
Local authorities said they are investigating reports Dalton behaved bizarrely toward one passenger just an hour and a half before the shooting began and that he may have continued picking up fares amid the shootings.
Kalamazoo County Prosecutor Jeffrey Getting told reporters Dalton appeared to have randomly targeted victims. “They appear to have been chosen at random because they were available,” Getting said.
Four victims were killed at a Cracker Barrel restaurant.
Gun control advocates cited the violence Satruday as the latest mass shooting in the United States, which has less stringent gun laws than other advanced countries.
“#KalamazooShooting the 143rd mass shooting in America since 2009; the second mass shooting in 2016,” tweeted Shannon Watts, the founder of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, a group supported by former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
