AKIPRESS.COM - The shootings came out of nowhere, one after the other, and with no apparent connection, NY Times reports.

A woman was shot multiple times as she stood in the parking lot of her suburban townhouse complex in Kalamazoo County.

A few miles away, and a few hours later on Saturday night, a man and his teenage son were killed outside a balloon-lined car dealership near a strip of fast-food restaurants.

Minutes after that, along an interstate highway just outside Kalamazoo, four women were shot to death, and a teenage girl was gravely injured, as they sat in their cars outside a Cracker Barrel restaurant.

The authorities said a single gunman, Jason B. Dalton, a driver for Uber, was responsible for the night of terror, and investigators were looking into reports that he was ferrying his passengers before the attacks began and perhaps even in between some of the shootings.

One customer said Mr. Dalton took him on a harrowing ride around 4:30 p.m. on Saturday, less than two hours before the shootings. Another said Mr. Dalton agreed to provide her a ride late Saturday, after the attacks were over.