Uber driver shot while helping an attacked Chinatown senior citizen – AsAmNews

Uber driver Paul Bessette had just dropped off a passenger near the entrance to Chicago’s Chinatown when he noticed something very disturbing.

At least two perpetrators beat and robbed an elderly man at 1:40 a.m. on Wednesday.

“The guy was bleeding from his head and they were still beating him. And I just thought, man, somebody’s got to do something,” Bessette told ABC7.

He started honking his horn, hoping to scare the suspects away. Instead, one of them shot at him. The bullet went through his window and his shoulder belt before hitting him.

“I just grabbed my chest and squeezed really hard. I felt a tingling in my chest,” Bessette told WGN. “I knew I had to get out of there, so I turned my steering wheel all the way and hit the gas.”

He managed to get away from the scene of the accident, pull over and call 911. All he could think about was his children and wanted to hug them.

He said doctors later described his wound as superficial. He is currently resting at his parents’ home in Florida.

The man he was trying to help was taken to the hospital by paramedics with head injuries. Not much is known about the elderly man, his ethnicity and his condition, reports CBS Chicago.

No arrests have been made and no description of the suspect has been released.

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