TONIGHT, A TEENAGER’S ATTORNEY SAYING THE MEDICAL EVIDENCE >> TONIGHT, NEW INFORMATION
AFTER AN UBER DRIVER SHOT HIS
19-YEAR-OLD PASSENGER.
>> THE UBER DRIVER SAYS HE
PULLED THE TRIGGER IN
SELF-DEFENSE AFTER BEING
ATTACKED, BUT NEW EVIDENCE MAY
REVEAL A VERY DIFFERENT STORY.
LOCAL 10 NEWS INVESTIGATOR
JEFF WEINSIER BROKE THE STORY
AND IS LIVE WITH WHAT HE’S
LEARNED, JEFF?
>> THREE WEEKS AFTER BEING
SHOT BY HIS UBER DRIVER, THE
19-YEAR-OLD REMAINS ON LIFE
SUPPORT.
THE BULLET GOING THROUGH HIS
RIGHT KIDNEY, LUNG AND HIS
LIVER.
AND TONIGHT, THE FAMILY
ATTORNEY SAYS BASED ON THE
ENTRY WOUND AND THE EXIT
WOUND, WAS THE UBER DRIVER’S
LIFE REALLY IN DANGER?
>> THIS SHOOTING WAS
UNJUSTIFIED.
>> 19-YEAR-OLD MILES HAS BEEN
UNABLE TO SPEAK.
HE REMAINS IN A MEDICALLY
INDUCED COMA.
IT WAS NOVEMBER 9TH AROUND
7:30 P.M. ON PARK ROAD OUTSIDE
THE PARK, MILES SHOT BY HIS
UBER DRIVER WHO CLAIMED IT WAS
SELF-DEFENSE THAT MILES HAD
ATTACKED HIM.
THE ARGUMENT APPARENTLY OVER A
DROP OFF LOCATION.
AND WHILE MILES MAY BE UNABLE
TO SPEAK AND TELL ANYONE HIS
SIDE OF THE STORY RIGHT NOW,
HIS ATTORNEY SAYS THE MEDICAL
EVIDENCE DOES.
>> WE NOW KNOW AGAIN THAT HE
WAS SHOT FROM THE BACK TO THE
FRONT.
WE HAVE AN EXIT WOUND TO THE
CHEST.
SO WHAT KIND OF SELF-DEFENSE
IS HE CLAIMING?
MILES MOTHER WAS TOLD BY THE
DETECTIVE HER SON HAD EXITED
THE CAR.
THE UBER DRIVER APPARENTLY GOT
OUT AND FOLLOWED.
THAT’S WHEN THE ARGUMENT
ENSUED.
THE SHOOTING HAPPENED OUTSIDE
THE VEHICLE.
>> WHEN MILES LEFT THE
VEHICLE, HE COULD HAVE DRIVEN
AWAY, HE COULD HAVE CALLED THE
POLICE AND THE POLICE COULD
HAVE RESPONDED.
AT THAT POINT, THE UBER WAS
PAID FOR.
HE KNOWS MILES’ NAME FROM THE
UBER ACCOUNT.
>> SHOULD THE UBER DRIVER BE
ARRESTED?
>> ABSOLUTELY.
>> APRIL HAS BEEN AT HER SON’S
SIDE IN THE ICU SINCE IT
HAPPENED.
COURT RECORDS SHOW MILES HAS
NEVER BEEN IN TROUBLE WITH THE
LAW.
AT 19, HE STILL ABIDES BY HIS
MOTHER’S MIDNIGHT CURFEW.
THE NIGHT HE WAS SHOT, MILES
WAS ON HIS WAY TO VISIT HIS
GRANDPARENTS AND WAS SHOT
RIGHT OUTSIDE THEIR COMPLEX.
>> HE’S AT MY HOUSE EVERY DAY
WHEN THE KIDS ARE IN HIGH
SCHOOL.
HE DOES NOT HAVE AN AGGRESSIVE
BONE IN HIS BODY.
>> FOR WEEKS, LOCAL 10 NEWS
HAS REPEATEDLY ASKED HOLLYWOOD
POLICE FOR THE REPORT THAT MAY
INDICATE WHY THE DRIVER
THOUGHT THIS UNARMED 129 POUND
TEEN WHO EXITED HIS VEHICLE
POSED A LIFE THREATENING
DANGER TO THE DRIVER.
THIS IS WHAT WE RECEIVED
MONDAY AFTER INFORMING THE
DEPARTMENT WE WERE DOING A
STORY ON THEIR LACK OF
TRANSPARENCY.
>> PAGE AFTER PAGE AFTER PAGE
OF REDACTION.
THIS IS PATHETIC.
>> A SECOND E-MAIL TO US
REVEALED THE UBER DRIVER HAD A
BUMP ON THE LEFT SIDE OF HIS
HEAD.
>> THEY MUST INTERVIEW MILES TO GET HIS SIDE OF THE STORY ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED.
THERE ARE NO WITNESSES,
OBVIOUSLY, RIGHT NOW.
UBER HAS SUSPENDED THE
DRIVER’S PRIVILEGES.
THEY HAVE A VERY, VERY STRICT
NO GUN POLICY.