A Lyft driver, upset at having his car door slammed, twice shot one of his passengers after demanding the man exit the vehicle, according to investigators in Florida.
The dispute happened around 5:15 p.m. Wednesday, October 22, on Spring Villas Circle near Orlando, and a second passenger escaped unharmed, the Orange County Sheriff’s Office reported in an affidavit.
The two passengers are brothers, and the shots were fired after they got into an argument with their Lyft driver, identified as 33-year-old Rolando Andres Rivera-Castillas of Melbourne, officials said.
Joseph Stanfield told deputies he and his brother were getting out when the driver also “exited the car and shot at them as they ran away,” the affidavit reports. Stanfield was struck once in the abdomen and again in his foot, officials said.
Rivera-Castillas was still at the scene when deputies arrived, and the brothers were found on the porch of a nearby home, officials said.
“An interview was attempted with (Rivera-Castillas) and he advised he wished to speak with a lawyer,” the report says.
He was arrested and charged with two counts of attempted second-degree murder with a firearm, jail records show.
“Rolando (Rivera-Castillas) intentionally committed an overt act by exiting his vehicle with a gun and shooting,” the affidavit notes.
“Rolando told (the men) that he would shoot them prior to exiting his vehicle. … A person of ordinary judgment would know this act is reasonably certain to kill or do serious bodily injury to another.”
Details of what started the dispute were not released.
By MARK PRICE/Charlotte Observer
