Pregnant Lyft Driver Stabbed to Death by Passenger in Tempe (AZ)

LINK

quote:

---

Tempe police have arrested a man suspected of stabbing a pregnant Lyft driver to death Sunday morning after he called for a ride.

Fabian Durazo, 20, was arrested Monday after he was spotted driving the victim's car on Interstate 10 near Quartzsite, Tempe police said.

He is being held in the stabbing death of Kristina Howato, 39, who was a working as a Lyft driver and had responded to a call for a ride from Durazo at around 1 a.m. on Sunday, police said.

The stabbing occurred in the 1700 block of East Eighth Street in Tempe, near McClintock and University drives. When the vehicle arrived at the address, Durazo began to stab Howato repeatedly while inside the SUV and continued the attack outside of the vehicle, police said.

Durazo then fled with the woman's 2005 Mercury SUV, which was equipped with GPS locating technology, according to Tempe police.

Responding police and paramedics found Howato with multiple stab wounds. She was in her third trimester of pregnancy. Howato and her unborn child both died, police said.

---

As crazy as the world is today, I'm somewhat shocked this doesn't happen more often. There are so many weird pieces of shite walking around each day, there is no way I could be a glorified taxi driver.

Someone else posted elsewhere that Lyft has a "no weapons" policy for their drivers, so they're defenseless against this shite. I'm fairly certain Uber also has the same policy because I remember it mentioned when the Uber driver got into the shootout on Canal in NOLA a couple years ago. Just setting their drivers up for trouble.

ETA: I'm not 100% certain on their weapons policy, as LNCHBOX stated.