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A former Lyft driver who's charged with shooting a woman in York after an argument about the temperature inside the car told investigators that he had been trying to fire a warning shot at the curb, police testified on Thursday.

York City Police Detective Zachary Pelton said on cross-examination that Jerry Miller stated that he stopped on East College Avenue and South George Street on June 24. He then tried to get out of the car, he told investigators, but one of the three women he'd been driving struck him in the back of the head.

Next, Miller told police, he grabbed his gun, a SIG Sauer P320. He then fired out the back passenger side window. The women had already exited the vehicle.

'This was a warning shot,' said Pelton, who was referencing notes of the interview, 'and he shot at the curb.'

District Judge Ronald Haskell Jr. later ordered Miller, 51, of Newburg, Cumberland County, whose story differed from the three women, to stand trial on charges of aggravated assault, simple assault and recklessly endangering another person. Prosecutors added two additional counts of each at the start of the preliminary hearing.

© Submitted Jerry Miller, 51, of the 100 block of East Main Street, Newburg, Cumberland County, is charged with aggravated assault, simple assault and recklessly endangering another person.

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Pelton testified that Miller told investigators that the women called him racist and that he was scared.

Miller is white. The women are Black.

Police later executed a search warrant and found a magazine containing 15 bullets inside his car.

Miller was cooperative and turned over his weapon to law enforcement. He had a little mark behind his right ear, Pelton testified.

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Earlier in the hearing, Senior Deputy Prosecutor Jennifer Tobias called Henrietta Rice, one of the three women who was in the car, as a witness.

Rice testified that she and her nieces, Rosemarie Elliott and Mae Harris, called a Lyft at about 3 a.m. following a family game night. She asked the driver to let them roll down the windows because it was cold, but he ignored her repeated requests.

Later, Miller, she testified, started to call her dumb. He had locked the doors in the car.

When they got to the intersection, Rice testified, one of her nieces stated that she was going to call the ride-hailing company and ask for a refund. Miller told them to get out of the car. But she said the doors were still locked.

They eventually made it out of the car.

That's when Rice said she saw the driver reach down, pull out a gun and fire one shot. The bullet hit the curb, and fragments struck Harris in the leg. The three went to a family member's house and called the police.

'He had my whole life shook up,' Rice testified. 'I'm scared of this man.'

On cross-examination, Rice said no one was under the influence, to her knowledge. She said she doesn't drink or take drugs. She said they did not have the opportunity to physically do anything to the driver.

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© Cameron Clark, York Daily Record From left, Henrietta Rice and her nieces, Rosemarie Elliott and Mae Harris, say a Lyft driver shot at them in York after a family game night on June 24. They shared their story at Farquhar Park in York on July 10.

Outside District Court 19-1-04, Miller and his attorney, Assistant Public Defender Dave MacVeigh, declined to be interviewed.

Dana Davis, a spokesperson for Lyft, has said the company 'permanently removed the driver.'

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In a statement, Leticia Chavez-Freed, an attorney who's representing the family with her co-counsel, Jenni Chavis, said they were happy to see Miller appropriately charged.

'Violence against Black women has often been minimized and discounted throughout the history of this country. We are so very pleased to see our clients being taken seriously and having the perpetrator being held accountable,' Chavez-Freed said. 'It is a good day for all women and York County has much to be proud of in their stance of upholding the laws of the commonwealth, accountability and protecting women.'

Miller is set to be formally arraigned on Sept. 9. He's free on $25,000 unsecured bail.

Contact Dylan Segelbaum at 717-771-2102.

This article originally appeared on York Daily Record: Ex-Lyft driver charged in shooting told investigators he fired a warning shot, police say

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A Lyft driver was fired from her job after revealing she used a legally owned gun to protect herself during an attempted carjacking.

'I had to fight with these two men. I had one choking me from the back,' former Cleveland, Ohio, Lyft driver Cynthia Norman said.

Norman picked up the two men at 1 a.m. on Sunday and said she suspected something nefarious was afoot when she pulled into the destination, the NEO Sports Plant, and saw it was closed.

The two men then allegedly began attacking her, with one one of the men choking her and the other punching her in the face. Pa casinos list.

She then pulled a gun from the car's console and began firing. It is unclear if either of the men were injured as they fled.

Norman then drove to a local police precinct.

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'They didn't know I was going to fight back,' she said.

Norman was later terminated from Lyft because the company has a zero-tolerance policy on weapons. Lyft did not immediately return the Washington Examiner's request for comment.

'Our ‘No Weapons' policy applies when you are doing business as a representative of Lyft, which includes times that you are driving for Lyft, as well as times that you are visiting a Lyft Hub,' Lyft's policy states.

'What if you're getting attacked? What are you supposed to do then?' Norman said.

Local police say both men face charges of attempted kidnapping and attempted aggravated robbery. No arrests have been made, and the Lyft account used the night of the reported attempted carjacking used the name 'NBA' and had no photo of the passengers.

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