Autistic teen dropped off in wrong Detroit neighborhood is shot trying to run away from attackers

An autistic teen who was mistakenly dropped off in the wrong neighborhood by an Uber driver was shot in the back as he tried to flee two attackers.

Claude Woosk, 18, ended up on the corner of Lenox Street and East Warren Avenue on Detroit’s east side last month rather than his home in neighboring River Rouge. It was not immediately clear how the two addresses became mixed up.

Panicked and confused due to the unfamiliar setting, the teen’s family told FOX 2 that he called his sister, Violet Woosk, who told him to take a photo of a nearby address so his family could come and pick him up…

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