A 61-year-old Uber driver killed in a French Quarter carjacking was dragged by his own vehicle before the carjacker crashed, resulting in the vehicle flipping on top of the victim, according to a person who said they were a passenger in the rideshare just before the attack.

That witness said they and their family had just been dropped off after dinner near the intersection of Burgundy and Bienville streets around 8:30 p.m. Thursday when they witnessed the carjacking. The driver tried to stop the carjacker, who drove off, dragging him with the vehicle.

The carjacker crashed and flipped the vehicle on top of the Uber driver, pinning him there, then fled on foot.

"Several of us lifted the car off," the witness said in an emailed statement. "We thought he was going to be OK, but are stunn

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