Does This Look Like The Face Of A Guy Who Went On A Shooting Spree And Used Lyft As His Getaway Car?
(NBC News)–A man fired shots in an Indiana mobile home park and then ordered a Lyft as his getaway car, police say.
Issa Amer Ishtawi, 20, broke into a mobile home in Portage, Indiana, about 10 miles east of Gary, on Tuesday, the Portage Police Department said.
Ishtawi fired a gun inside the home before taking one of the residents outside, shooting several more rounds into the house and striking a man who was visiting in his left foot, police said.
Several rounds also struck nearby homes, police said, but nobody else was hurt.
That has to be the most anxious wait for an uber/Lyft of all time. It’s always a little annoying when you’re waiting and following the little car on the map in the app. Like, why the fuck is it spinning around in a circle at that intersection? I have places to be. Then it just stalls and you wait and wait and stare at it and then it cancels on you and you feel like you want MURDER that driver because now you’ll have to wait another 4 mins for a ride in a stranger’s car and you’ve already been waiting 2 minutes. The worst. And that’s just an everyday occurance. Now imagine you just shot up the trailer park and you’re waiting for your lyft. Can’t have higher tension than that. I wonder if he called it beforehand. That would be the move. How long does a shooting take? 30 seconds max? You want to time that shit so your driver sends you the “here” text roughly 20 seconds after you’re done and the only way to do that is call in advance. You don’t want to reply to the driver with “be right there, almost done with this murder attempt”.
Nobody got killed so he probably only gets charged with attempted murder, and one of the lesser degrees, because I think not calling an uber in advance shows that it wasn’t a premeditated attack. The worst punishment he’s going to get though…
“Upon becoming aware of the allegations, we immediately banned the passenger from our community and reached out to the driver to offer our support. We stand ready to assist law enforcement with their investigation,”
I mean if you’re banned from uber/lyft forever you might as well stay in jail. Lyft basically just sentenced him to lifetime house arrest. If I didn’t have uber I would never leave like a 3 block radius of my house. This is a harsher sentence than whatever he’ll get from the Gary, IN police department.