Who is shooting America’s app-based gig workers?

Suspects are overwhelmingly Black

On November 1st, 2023, National Conservative published the largest collection of app-based gig-worker murders ever made. A total of 63 murders, of which 48 had a known suspect. Activists groups had been claiming that “People of Color” and immigrants were being disproportionately killed. However, all of these groups censors who the suspects are. What we discovered was shocking. 83.3% of known suspects were Black. Only 4.2% were White.

If anything, it is actually Whites who are disproportionately murdered, since so few of the perps of White.

Now we are updating the list with another thirty-three murders. Of these, twenty-seven have a known race for the suspect.

Total per year:

2021: 27
2022: 24
2023: 25
2024: 13
2025: 7

In cases where the race of a suspect is confirmed:

White: 3
Latino: 6
Middle Eastern: 3
Black: 63
Unsolved: 20

Race of the victims:

Black: 40
White: 23
Latino: 14
Central Asian: 10
East Asian: 3
Middle Eastern: 4
Unnamed Victim: 2

The thirty-three killings we added to the study:

Click here to see the previous 63.

In the future, we will post a downloadable spreadsheet listing all ninety killings.

Date City App Victim Victim Race Suspect Suspect Race
2/26/25 Houston, TX Lyft Unnamed Censorsed by police
2/18/25 Anderson County, SC DoorDash Jimmy Ramey White Daeshawn Marquize Wilson Black
1/31/25 Phoenix, AZ Veo Samuel Webster Black Jordan Spalding Black
1/29/25 Atlanta, GA Uber Sammy Jackson Black Iquane Brow Black
1/12/25 Durham, NC Uber Emmanuel Gbedee Black Tray’vian Brown Black
1/10/25 Brodnax, VA Uber Unnamed White Isabelle Nyellie Battle Black
1/1/25 Cottage City, Md Uber Oluwatosin Adetula Black Brandon Leonard Black
12/26/24 Fayetteville, NC DoorDash Samori Husamudeen Black Kevin Holland Black
11/30/24 DeKalb County, GA Lyft Rafeeq Badee Black David Grogan Black
11/25/24 Las Vegas, NV Uber Michael Wilmot White Censorsed by police
8/26/24 San Antonio, TX Lyft Robert Renteria Latino Unsolved
6/20/24 NYC, NY Uber Naveed Afzal Central Asian At-large Black
6/8/24 Opa-Locka, FL Uber Easts Alejandro Linares Latino Dawayen Anton Bendross Black
6/4/24 Portland, OR Uber Joshua Kelvin White Unsolved
5/17/24 Fort Worth, TX Lyft Shawali Sherali Central Asian Michael Walker Black
5/15/24 Atlanta, GA Lyft Reginald Folks Black Koby Minor Black
3/30/24 Dallas, TX Lyft Mohammad Haddad-Farshi Middle Eastern Maurice Parker Black
3/25/24 South Charleston, OH Uber Lo-Letha Hall Black William Brock White
2/24/24 Sacramento, CA DoorDash Joseph Anthony Soto Jr. Latino Alimohhamed Hamid
Middle-Eastern
1/3/24 Edmonds, WA Uber Abdikadir Sharif Black Alex Waggoner Black
12/26/23 Chicago, IL Lyft Adriana Arocha Duque White At-large Black
12/3/23 Chicago, IL Uber Mohammed Al Hijoj Middle Eastern Zayin Kelly Black
10/5/23 Cedar Rapids, IA DoorDash Myron Snyder Black Cameron Leonard Black
5/11/23 Prince George County, VA DoorDash Cameron Cole Black Group Black
4/19/23 Akron, OH DoorDash Jaevierre Greer Black Matthew Couch Black
1/12/23 Renton, WA Uber Mahamadou Kabba Black Mamadou Aliou Diallo Black
11/2/22 Jackson, MS DoorDash Corey Price Black Shadrick Simmons Black
9/11/22 Seattle, WA Lyft Mohamed Kediye Black Unsolved
8/27/22 East St Louis Uber Harriet Childers Black Classified Black
8/14/22 Byron, TX Uber Alithia Jenkins-Perry White Anderson Martinez-Herrera Latino
8/12/22 Chicago, IL Uber Crayton Saffold Black Unsolved
5/18/22 Modesto, CA DoorDash Andrew Satavu Central Asian Mario Esparza Latino
1/12/22 Urbana, IL Lyft Kristian Philpotts Black Tyjohn Williams Black

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