Uber driver assaulted, car stolen by passengers at cemetery

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Police say an Uber driver was assaulted and carjacked by at least six people at a Southwest Memphis cemetery.

The driver told officers it happened on July 26 in the middle of the afternoon when he went to the New Park Cemetery on Horn Lake Road to pick up a female customer.

The Uber driver said when he arrived at the cemetery, four females and two males got into his red 2018 Nissan, and when he stopped at the front gate of the cemetery, one of the females sprayed him in the face with pepper spray.

The driver said that’s when he was pulled from the car and assaulted, and the group drove off in his vehicle…

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