The man police say shot and killed six people in Kalamazoo, Michigan, last month told officers that he was being controlled by the Uber app on his phone when the shooting spree occurred, according to authorities.
When a police officer asked Uber driver Jason Brian Dalton about the shooting, he told them that when he opened the company's app, a symbol appeared that "would literally take over your whole body," an officer wrote in a police report released Monday.
During an interview with detectives, Dalton said he did not remember shooting people, though he acknowledged that the families of people killed deserved an explanation for what happened. After talking with the detectives for some time, Dalton was asked for an explanation and said that the reason "would blow [their] minds," Det. William Moorian of the Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety wrote in his report on the interview.
"Dalton said that he understands now how the other mass shootings take place," Moorian wrote. "Dalton explained how he has experienced a full body takeover, that is how he can understand the other mass shootings."
Dalton told detectives that he believed the Uber app controlled him, and said he pleaded the Fifth earlier in the interview to avoid coming across as a crazy person, Moorian wrote. He went on to tell police that a symbol appeared -- a devil-like image with horns -- and would give him an assignment that he would follow and, at times, see himself from outside of his body, Moorian wrote.