US man ‘possessed though Uber app’ pleads guilty to murdering 6 strangers

An Uber driver who claimed the app was controlling him has pleaded guilty to murdering six strangers in between rides, admitting to the crimes even in the absence of a plea deal. He now faces life in prison without parole.

Jason Dalton pled guilty to murder, attempted murder, and firearms charges on Monday, surprising a Kalamazoo court three days into the trial and acting against his lawyer’s advice. With no deal on the table, he will be sentenced to life without the possibility of parole. He claimed he wished to spare the victims’ families the agony of a trial, telling a judge “I’ve wanted to do this for quite a while.”

Dalton shot eight people at three locations in Kalamazoo, Michigan in February 2016, killing four women, a man, and a 17-year-old boy in between picking up and dropping off Uber passengers. Two more young women survived. Police said he chose his victims at random.

A “devil figure” on the Uber app was controlling him during the shootings, he told police after he was arrested, but he was forced to drop the insanity defense after a psychiatric evaluation found him competent to stand trial on Friday.

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Fucking nutter to come up with that idea. Glad he won't see the outside world again.