Uber Driver Who Attacked Women With Ice Scraper Pleads Guilty

By Mae Rice in News on Jan 18, 2016 5:00PM

Remember back in December, when that Uber driver attacked two women with an ice scraper outside of a Whole Foods? Though it sounds like a Mad Lib I found in the street, it really happened.

On Friday, Chieh Wang, the 37-year-old Uber driver in question, pled guilty to battery charges related to the incident, and will have to attend anger management classes, according to ABC7. Uber also dismissed him for his behavior.

Wang was previously charged with two counts of battery and one count of criminal damage to property relating to the attack—the latter for allegedly breaking one of his victim’s phones.

The two prospective passengers he assaulted, Toni Sanders and Kournety Wilson, expressed ongoing shock about how the incident escalated to ABC 7. Fairly: It began with them asking Wang to wait for a minute; it ended in ice scraper blows.

"I didn't expect to be hit because who hits someone with an ice scraper?” Wilson said.

"The fervor in which he attacked us, I don't think he would have stopped if no one else had been around," Sanders said.

Ride-share drivers have been having emotional outbursts a lot recently. In December, a Lyft driver also shouted at and followed a passenger who cancelled a ride.