CLEVELAND — A $150,000 bond has been issued for an 18-year-old man who is accused of shooting a rideshare driver.
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Police said Deandre Griggs was arrested at his Garfield Heights home on Wednesday.
Officers said they discovered a gun during the arrest and are working to determine whether it was used in the attack on the rideshare driver.
Griggs faces a charge of felonious assault.
Authorities have issued a no-contact order preventing him from contacting the victim.
What happened?
According to the Cleveland Division of Police, officers responded just before 10:30 p.m. Tuesday to the 3400 block of East 146th Street after receiving a report of a man being shot. When they arrived, they found a 41-year-old man with a gunshot wound to the face.
Police have not released the victim’s identity.
The police report states the attack was captured on a doorbell camera.
Another witness told officers they saw a person dressed entirely in black exit the passenger side, fire a shot, shove the victim aside, and then flee in the truck.
Police later found the man’s vehicle abandoned nearby.
Emergency crews transported the victim to the hospital, where police said he underwent surgery.
Investigators said they made a breakthrough in the case after reviewing the driver’s phone, where they saw an Uber notification and contacted the company.
“Once they realized he was a rideshare driver, they worked very thoroughly, very quickly to, to identify the suspect in this case,” said Cleveland police officer Mariah Rodriguez.
Rodriguez said detectives are still working to determine a motive for the shooting.
This is the third rideshare driver shot in Cleveland this year.
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