RICHMOND, Va. (WWBT) - With a quiver in his voice, from inside his hospital room on Monday night, Lamar McCray bravely recounts the moment violence met him at work, changing his life forever.

“A young guy gets in the car and he tells me go, go, go,” McCray said.

His first pick up on Saturday Night turned for the worst, when his passenger frantically asked him to take off. But McCray said before he could drive away, the suspect now identified as Elwood Lewis approached the car.

“He asked me ‘Am I with him in an angry tone,’ and I told him no I’m a Lyft driver,” McCray said. “As I sped off before I got to the stop sign, I heard the glass shatter in the back and I got hit with a bullet.”

All of this happened on Old Denny Street near Williamsburg Road.

Richmond Police started their invest

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