According to his statement on police interview, Dalton believes the ride-sharing Uber app on his iPhone gave him directions on where and when to kill people.
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According to the arresting officer’s report, Dalton said when he logged onto the Uber app it “started making him be like a puppet”.
It was later, according to documents, when Dalton told investigators his phone was controlling him at the time of the shootings.
One of Dalton’s interviewers recounts that when Dalton opened the app that night, “he recognized the symbol as being that of the Eastern Star, and a devil head popped up on his screen and when he pressed the button on his app, the problems started”.
“Dalton said he did not remember pulling the trigger and he just remembers feeling the percussion of the gunshots”, police wrote of the Cracker Barrel shootings. “She couldn’t go back to work anymore and the kids could not go back to school”, Dalton says he told her when she questioned him as he took her vehicle.
During a series of interviews, Dalton reportedly described a “devil figure” in the Uber app and said he “wishes he would never have spoken what that symbol was when he saw it on his phone”.
Dalton, 45, has been ordered to undergo a mental competency exam.
Dalton is accused of killing On February 20, six people and wounding two others during a Feb. 20 shooting spree in and around Kalamazoo.
In reports last month, Uber confirmed Dalton had passed a background check before joining the company and had no criminal record.
Upon arrest, Dalton was found with a Walther 9 mm handgun and ammunition, and was wearing a wearing a bulletproof vest. “Dalton explained how he has experienced a full body takeover, that is how he can understand the other mass shootings”.
The revelations came on the same day that authorities released audio of 911 calls describing the shootings and dash-cam video that showed his arrest. One of the victims who survived is a 14-year-old who was shot in the head; she was released from the hospital last week and moved to an inpatient rehabilitation centre. “…Dalton said that as he was sitting there with us, it was nearly like artificial intelligence that can tap into your body”.
“I asked Dalton what was going through his mind tonight at Don Seelye Ford and he said he didn’t want to say”, Moorian wrote in his report.
The police, although, have strived to find the reason that motivated Dalton to go on a killing spree, they have largely been unsuccessful.
Police said in the report that Dalton said “he is not a killer and he knows that he has killed”.
At the time of the first shooting, Dalton’s wife told investigators she thought he was at a dog park with Mia, the family’s black German shepherd. The rampage ended when Dalton was taken into custody by police hours after the gunfire began.
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Harrison said he asked Dalton if the gun was registered in his name.
