FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 Fresno police are investigating a shooting that left an Uber driver wounded Thursday night after an altercation with a passenger.<\/p>\n
Officers were called around 8:10 p.m. to reports of gunfire near George Avenue and Tupman Street. <\/p>\n
When they arrived, they found the driver suffering from a graze wound to the back of the head.<\/p>\n
According to investigators, the victim had picked up a passenger through the Uber app. <\/p>\n
At some point, the two became involved in an altercation, prompting the driver to ask the passenger to get out of the vehicle.<\/p>\n
Police say that once the passenger stepped out, they fired at least three rounds into the car, striking the driver once.<\/p>\n
The victim is stable, and no suspect information has been released.<\/p>\n
Detectives with the Fresno Police Department\u2019s Street Violence Bureau are now leading the investigation. <\/p>\n
They say they are following all leads, including information from Uber related to the ride request.<\/p>\n
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Anyone with additional details is urged to contact Fresno Police Department at (559) 621-7000. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 Fresno police are investigating a shooting that left an Uber driver wounded Thursday night…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73005,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-73004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73004","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=73004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}