‘Feeling Lost and Vulnerable’: Uber Passenger Gunned Down on Grocery Run, Then Fired from Hospital Bed While Shooters Remain on the Loose
An Uber passenger experienced the most terrifying ride of her life when two suspects in an SUV opened fire on her vehicle.
Terah Moore of Kansas City, Missouri, told local station KMBC 9 News that she just wanted to make a quick grocery run — to get a Red Bull before work — but landed in the hospital with life-threatening injuries. The harrowing car chase stretched for three miles, from Overland Park to Prairie Village.
Taking five bullets to the chest, neck, arm, and leg, Moore was rushed to the ICU and miraculously survived. The Uber driver, who remains unidentified, reportedly sustained non-life-threatening injuries.
Moore, a single mother of five, spoke to the outlet from her hospital bed, recalling her rideshare from hell: “They kept shooting at us until we crashed. Our car flipped over and they still was shooting, while it was burning up and everything.”
A police investigation is underway, but the suspects are still at large, and their maroon 2017 Jeep Grand Cherokee (license plate 9103ACY) has yet to be found. Moore described the suspects as “young teenagers,” including one who was thin with locs, both armed with automatic guns.
The nightmare began on the evening of March 22, soon after Moore got into her Uber. Just as they were leaving, a maroon Jeep Grand Cherokee pulled out of Moore’s apartment complex and started trailing them. “My Uber driver said, ‘I think I’m being followed.’ They followed her every move.”
“She just took off and started driving real fast,” Moore stated. “She ended up hopping the island, she’s literally going 115 miles per hour. I said, ‘Slow down, slow down, you about to miss your turn, slow down!’”
After the Uber driver cut through a gas station lot and almost clipped a building, Moore had a grim realization that she might never see her children again. “I was like, ‘We either going to die in a car accident or they gonna get us.’”
The shocked mother told the outlet that the Jeep caught up to them as they were weaving through traffic, and the first shots shattered the back window. The Uber driver began screaming, as Moore crouched down in the back seat.
“I hear her saying, ‘I want my mama! I want my mama! I want my mama! Oh my God, I don’t want to die today!’”
The frantic driver turned into a wooded residential neighborhood in Prairie Village, and that’s when all hell broke loose. The suspects “really started shooting,” Moore said. The car crashed into a tree and flipped over, catching fire near 99th Street and Roe Avenue. Moore admitted she felt a brief moment of relief, thinking the shooting would finally stop, but she was wrong. “They got out of their car and shot us up again while the car was on fire,” she stated.
Neighbors came to the rescue and helped the two women to safety.
In another shocking turn of events, Moore was fired from her job as a forklift operator while she was recovering in the hospital. According to her GoFundMe, she doesn’t feel safe going home, a place she had just moved into in February, and now has no idea what her future holds. “My kids are scared, and I don’t want to go back to our apartment. We have nowhere else to go, and I’m desperate to find a safer place for us to live. I don’t have a phone or much support, and this situation has left us feeling lost and vulnerable.”
Despite the ordeal, Moore is doing her best to stay positive. “I’m blessed. I understand that I’m blessed. I can still see my kids, be around my kids. They can still see me. I can still see my daughter be that WNBA player that she’s gonna be. Everything’s gonna work its way out,” she told KCTV 5.
Uber responded to the incident, calling it a “brazen act of violence,” and “deeply troubling,” and stated that the company is “standing by to assist law enforcement with their investigation.”