Uber driver says app made him go on killing spree

An Uber driver charged with fatally shooting six people in southwestern Michigan told investigators he was controlled by the ride-hailing app, through his phone, police said.

Jason Dalton told authorities, after the February 20 shootings in and around Kalamazoo, that “it feels like it is coming from the phone itself” and told of something “like an artificial presence”.

Dalton told officers that when you “plug into” the Uber app, “you can actually feel the presence on you.” He said the difference between the night of the shootings and others was that an icon on the Uber app, which is normally red, “had changed to black.”