{"id":161538,"date":"2026-02-03T06:49:20","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T06:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/161538\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T06:49:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T06:49:20","slug":"suspect-accused-of-shooting-at-uber-driver-on-thanksgiving-in-sw-fresno-arrested-in-tulsa-oklahoma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/161538\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspect accused of shooting at Uber driver on Thanksgiving in SW Fresno arrested in Tulsa, Oklahoma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">TULSA, Okla. (KFSN) &#8212; The man accused of shooting an Uber driver in Southwest Fresno on Thanksgiving last year was arrested on January 27 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, according to the Fresno Police Department.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Detectives identified Maurice Session as the suspect in the November 2025 shooting and coordinated with the U.S. Marshals Service to locate and arrest him in Tulsa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Session was booked into the Tulsa County Jail, where he is awaiting extradition to Fresno County.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The shooting occurred around 8:13 p.m. on Thanksgiving night near George Avenue and Tupman Street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Officers arrived to find an Uber driver sitting in his vehicle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Investigators learned the driver had picked up Session and a woman for a ride when the two began arguing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Police say Session slapped the driver, who then ordered the pair to get out of his vehicle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">As the driver pulled away, officers say, Session pulled out a handgun and shot at the driver, grazing his head. The victim&#8217;s vehicle was hit at least three times.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">The driver was taken to Community Regional Medical Center and later released.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KFSN-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TULSA, Okla. (KFSN) &#8212; The man accused of shooting an Uber driver in Southwest Fresno on Thanksgiving last&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":161539,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[78397,112,114,113,78396,294],"class_list":["post-161538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-78397","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-man-accused-of-shooting-uber-driver-on-thanksgiving-arrested-in-tulsa","tag-timely"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}