Uber driver pepper-sprayed by woman, carjacked by group at Memphis cemetery, police say

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - A group of women and two men carjacked an Uber driver at a Memphis cemetery, according to the Memphis Police Department (MPD).

MPD said the Uber driver picked up two women and two men around 2 p.m. on Saturday, July 26. The Uber driver drove them to the front gate of the New Park Cemetery, where one of the women sprayed him in the face with pepper spray, according to police.

The group pulled the Uber driver out of the 2018 Nissan Versa, and six people, four women and two men, drove away in it, police said.

MPD said cameras later captured the four women at a shopping center on Jackson Avenue.

If you have any information that could help identify those people responsible, MPD urged you to call CrimeStoppers at 901-528-2274.