Few accused of stabbing WA Uber driver to demise

An Uber driver was fatally stabbed as he was driving in Issaquah, Washington and a pair suspected in his death continues to be in jail, according to courtroom documents.

The target, discovered as 28-yr-previous Cherno Cessay, “was uncovered stabbed to demise in his motor vehicle that experienced crashed into a tree,” in Issaquah on Dec. 13, paperwork say. He had various stab wounds in the again of his head, neck and temple that were established to have come from driving the target, according to the documents.

The suspects stay in jail in King County Jail on $2 million bail. McClatchy Information is not determining them because they have not been formally billed.

The driver picked up his past rider within 100 yards from the crash web page, files say. Data from Uber served to establish the phone quantity and electronic mail of the final rider — or passengers — whose account was made 15 minutes ahead of the driver picked them up, according to files from the King County prosecuting attorney’s business.

After the driver was killed, his cellular phone continued to journey north on Renton-Issaquah Road, along with the similar number involved with the Uber rider’s account for a couple hundred yards right before the rider’s quantity was disconnected from the Uber app, files say. The victim’s cell phone number remained energetic on the Uber app for 155 minutes.

The Uber driver’s cell phone was tracked to Factoria, in which “Bellevue visitors cameras situated a white car with a black bag whose route perfectly corresponded with the GPS locations of [the victim’s] stolen cellular phone,” paperwork say. The vehicle was recognized as a white Nissan Altima with a Nevada license plate.

Police located the Nissan on Dec. 15 “near the Factoria Shopping mall in which the victim’s phone had traveled after the murder,” documents say. A person and a female had been located within the automobile and they were afterwards arrested by Bellevue officers for shoplifting, according to documents.

When police searched the Nissan, they found the victim’s cellphone and two bloody knives, documents say.

The lady advised law enforcement that she and her boyfriend ended up residing in the Nissan, which was hers, with their two dogs, according to paperwork. The lady confirmed her boyfriend’s phone number was the identical as the one particular affiliated with the Uber rider’s account, files say.

She stated she was with her boyfriend providing food in Issaquah on Dec. 13 right before the time of the stabbing but that they have been again in Factoria wherever they stayed for the relaxation of the night afterward, documents say.

The girl questioned for a attorney just after she was “confronted with [her boyfriend’s] mobile cellular phone destinations soon after the murder,” in accordance to files.

The male “claimed to not own a phone” and that he had “not experienced a telephone since he remaining Las Vegas in February 2020,” documents say.