Uber Driver Stabs Passengers During Argument Over Drop Location

A woman Uber driver was charged with 2 counts of aggravated assault Wednesday after she stabbed two passengers Sunday in Grovetown, Georgia.

Amber Teahon said she and two friends were picked up by an Uber cab on Sunday morning. After getting lost multiple times, the driver pulled over at a division and demanded the group to get out of the car. When they argued about dropping them off at the right location, the driver stabbed one of Teahon's friends in the arm.

Before getting off the car, Teahon told the driver she "wasn't going to get away with this." That is when the driver punched her in the neck. Teahon did not realize until later that the driver had been holding an X-Acto knife.

"It wasn't until the gentleman who ordered the Uber immediately looked at me took his shirt off and said you need to press this up against your neck," she said, Fox-affiliated television station WFXG reported.

Grovetown public safety staff reached the scene and called emergency medical services after seeing the wounds. The women were taken to a nearby hospital where they spent the next two days in the ICU.

Grovetown police located the car at a nearby gas station and arrested the driver, 29-year-old Shaunisha Brown. She made her initial appearance in court Monday but she did not get a bond. She remains in Columbia County Detention Center.

"I thought I was going to bleed out less than a mile away from my house where my husband and children were sleeping," Teahon said adding the stitches are a painful reminder of the incident. "I was really afraid that I was going to die. I knew that they rushed me in and they did a bunch of tests. I know that they did the CT on my neck to make sure she didn't hit my jugular."

"If I could have gone back and done it all over again I still would have got in the Uber and still gone home. Never would I have thought in a million years that I was going to get stabbed," she further said.

In a similar incident in 2016, an Uber driver was accused of repeatedly stabbing a passenger because he thought the man “disrespected” his car by tapping on the window. A Beverly Hills man and his wife called for an Uber ride home from a party. The victim tapped on the car’s window to let the driver know they were getting into the car. The driver thought the tapping “disrespected” his vehicle.

The driver then drove the couple about a mile before pulling into a shopping center parking lot. He ordered them to get out of the car and then stabbed the man in the chest, back and face. The passenger was able to disarm the driver and restrain him until police arrived. Once the police reached the scene, the man was rushed to a hospital and the driver was arrested, AJC reported.