PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — Police are looking for an Uber passenger who shot the driver from behind Thursday night in Cobbs Creek.
Police say the driver, a man in his 50s, picked up two people. One was dropped off at a location, but the other passenger stayed in the car.
When they got to Cobbs Creek Parkway and Delancey Street around 10 p.m., police say the remaining passenger fired a shot into the driver’s seat, striking the driver in the armpit. The shooter ran out of the car.
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Capt. John Walker said the wounded driver got out of his car but did not put it in park.
“The car, still rolling, strikes a parked car and he goes into the fence of the house,” he said.
Broadcast partner NBC10 received surveillance footage of the aftermath of the shooting:
The driver is in critical condition at the hospital. No one else was injured.
Police aren’t exactly sure yet of a motive. Anyone with information is asked to contact police as they continue their investigation.