On Saturday night, an Indianapolis man named Derek and his wife took her parents to a show at the famous Bell’s Brewery in Kalamazoo, Mich. As the craft beer flowed, a band called Andy Frasco and the U.N. belted out uplifting blues music. The group’s new album title seemed to capture the mood: “Happy Bastards.”

As the night drew on, however, the crowd began to hear increasingly horrific news. A Kalamazoo woman had been shot outside her apartment complex. Then a father and son had been gunned down in front of an automobile dealership. Finally, a local Cracker Barrel had been turned into a bloodbath when a shooter opened fire, killing at least four.

Derek and his family were staying only a mile and a half away from the brewery, but he decided it was safer not to walk with a killer was on the loose in the college town.

So he ordered an Uber.

That decision could have cost them their lives.

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