CHARLOTTE, N.C. — An Uber driver is recovering from a gunshot wound following a shooting that happened last weekend after he dropped off passengers at an upscale Ballantyne apartment complex.
“I didn't really realize I was shot until I looked down at my chest and my shirt was just full of blood,” said the driver, who didn’t want to be named.
Michael Dunlap fired five shots into the car, police said.
The driver, a 37-year-old husband and father, still doesn’t know why.
“Seemed to be totally random,” the driver said
The man is a mortgage loan processor and drives for Uber to make extra money.
He was driving a couple to their home in Ballantyne just after 10 p.m. Saturday. He said that when he turned into the complex on Chuck Avenue, Dunlap pulled his truck in their path.
“He kind of abruptly pulled in front of us and I saw he had a gun kind of hanging there,” the driver said.
The driver said Dunlap said something to him and his customers, but that they couldn’t understand him.
The driver drove around the truck, dropped the couple off, and then, minutes later, came face-to-face with Dunlap.
Dunlap got out of his trick, raised his gun and began shooting.
Five bullets went through the car, and one of those hit the driver in the chest.
The driver met police at a nearby gas station on Don Lochman Lane and was then taken to the hospital.
"Your life has a purpose when something that's supposed to kill you doesn't kill you,” the driver said.
Dunlap has been charged with attempted first-degree murder and damage to property.
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