Rochester man accused of carjacking his Lyft driver's vehicle
Apr. 28—ROCHESTER — A Rochester man has been accused of carjacking his Lyft driver's vehicle after getting "angry" over the $60 fare.
Christopher Paul Hilton, 41, was charged on Friday, April 25, with first-degree carjacking. His first appearance is scheduled for Nov. 11.
According to the criminal complaint, deputies from the Olmsted County Sheriff's Office responded to a trailer court in Stewartville, located at 105 20th Street NW, after receiving a report of two men fighting. When police arrived, one man was still at the scene and the other left in a vehicle.
The man at the scene told police he is a Lyft driver who was hired to bring a man from Rochester to Stewartville. The complaint said once they arrived at the trailer court, "the patron began to get angry" over the $60 fare. The man said Hilton grabbed his neck and hit him in the head while in the car. Both exited the vehicle when Hilton hit the man again, got in the car and drove off, the complaint said.
According to the complaint, the Lyft driver provided police with a video he took while Hilton assaulted him. The man gave his vehicle's license plate number, and police found that Hilton wanted to be transported to 2109 Bluebird Terrace NW in Stewartville.
The man's vehicle, a 2018 Honda CRV, was found unoccupied in front of a residence on 23rd Street Northwest. The complaint said surveillance video showed Hilton exit the driver's side of the car and head on foot toward 2109 Bluebird Terrace NW.
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