HOLLYWOOD, FLA. (WSVN) - Police have taken two people into custody after an Uber driver was shot at on Interstate 95 in Hollywood while passengers were riding in his car.
The shooting happened on Interstate 95 South, just north of Hollywood Boulevard, at around 1:45 a.m., Wednesday.
The driver had just picked up a couple at Hard Rock Casino.
When he got onto I-95, Florida Highway Patrol troopers said, the driver and passenger of a white Mercedes fired a weapon seven times at the driver’s side of the black Honda being used for Uber.
The Uber driver, with his two passengers in the vehicle, followed the Mercedes off the Hollywood Boulevard exit and called 911.
“They just shot at us,” said the driver in the dashcam video.
“Chase them,” said one of the passengers.
“He’s got guns. He’s shooting at us,” said the driver.
The passenger encouraged the driver to follow the subjects, so they could get the tags while they called the police.
“Now it’s like hitting me, like what the hell am I doing,” said the driver, “but on the blink, they came from the side, right in front of the courthouse in Hollywood, and I said, ‘That’s the car.'”
The black Honda could be seen stopped in the area of Hollywood Boulevard and South 24th Avenue.
7News cameras captured several bullet holes in the vehicle.
“When I looked to my left, I saw two red blasts right in my face,” said the driver.
The driver did not want to speak on camera, but he said he has no idea why he or his passengers were targeted.
“I’m just a simple freaking Uber driver minding my own business and this happened,” he said. “Look at the bullets. They said seven times, but you see the height here. You bring the height here, and it hit me.”
Hollywood Police then responded to the scene and officers chased after the Mercedes. The driver and the passenger of the vehicle got out and took off running in the area of Polk Street and North 13th Avenue.
Police set up a perimeter and shortly after took the two suspects into custody. They also recovered a black semi-automatic handgun.
A neighbor took cellphone video of police arresting the two men outside of her home.
The driver said he’s glad the subjects were caught, but he has to keep working.
“I wish to know why,” he said. “I mean, I wish to know why.”
The driver said the passengers told him they have no reason to believe someone would follow them from the casino.
Police have not yet released the identities of the subjects in custody.
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