An Uber driver was about to drop off his last passenger of the night when he pulled up on a tree branch laying across the road in Lancaster, Massachusetts.
Esmelky Acevedo, 33, said he was driving down the tree lined Seven Bridges Road around 1 o’clock Thursday morning. Acevedo said he got out of his car to move the branch when two men suddenly jumped out of the woods and ran for his car. The passenger was still inside.
“I don’t know if they wanted to rob us but what I can see is that they wanted the car so bad,” Acevedo told WBZ-TV. “To be honest it went so fast I just reacted to the situation. I was there but it wasn’t me. I could tell it was God taking control of the situation.”
Man pointed gun at passenger
Lancaster police said one of the two suspects jumped in the driver’s seat, and the other ran to the back of the car to pull the Uber passenger out of the car. Acevedo said that man pointed a gun at the woman and demanded her cellphone and other belongings…