DETROIT (FOX 2) – An Uber ride to a friend’s ended in a brutal beating for a young woman, who dropped her off a few blocks from her final destination.
She says a random man on a bike attacked, without saying a word. Detroit police investigators with the 10th Precinct are working the case.
Morgan Catton’s face was smashed and she is still recovering a week and a half later.
Earlier this month, the Mount Clemens woman took an Uber on her way to a friend’s house at 14th and Hazelwood streets on Detroit’s west side,
The driver dropped her off a block from her final destination, he pulled off and she decided to walk.
That’s when, she says, a man on a bicycle pulled up and grabbed her by the neck and punched her several times. He then went on the bike.
Detroit resident Terence Willis lives nearby and hopes DPD catches whoever did this.
“I am very concerned,” he said. “I think accountability is what’s needed more than anything else.”
So does Morgan – we talked to her on the phone, she said, she was picked up by ambulance and spent the night in the hospital.
She has stitches in her eye, mouth and lips – but no broken bones though.
Willis runs a nonprofit to encourage people to move into this up-and-coming neighborhood, this kind of thing doesn’t help.
“Things are looking up, but sometimes things happen,” he said.
Detroit Police say – they are investigating all aspects of this incident to determine who is responsible. If you have any information – call DPD or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-SPEAK-UP.