(CNN) An Uber driver was taken into custody Friday morning after his passenger was shot and killed, Denver police said. Michael Andre Hancock, 29, was being held in jail for investigation of first-degree murder, a police press release said. The man handed the phone to the other man, who identified himself as Hancock, the statement said. Police arrived and found a male lying on the front seat floorboard of a Nissan sedan with gunshot wounds, the statement said. He was taken to a hospital and pronounced dead, said Sonny Jackson of the Denver police.

Source: CNN June 01, 2018 20:51 UTC