At her funeral, the 21-year-old’s cousin asked ride-sharing companies to “provide safeguards to the mistakes that are easily made, the mistake that took Sami from us.”
was found dead last week in Columbia, South Carolina, allegedly murdered by a man she thought was her Uber driver, her relatives are calling on ride-share companies to improve safeguards.
Police believe the University of South Carolina student had been waiting for an Uber after a night out and got into the wrong car by mistake. Her body was found the next day, and Nathaniel David Rowland, 24, was arrested and charged with murder and kidnapping. At her funeral Wednesday, which was held at a synagogue in Princeton Junction, New Jersey, just outside her hometown, her cousin Seth Josephson asked that Uber and Lyft “provide safeguards to the mistakes that are easily made, the mistake that took Sami from us.”He also asked for passengers to be careful when getting into an Uber or Lyft and “first inquire from the driver that they are the rider, that they were supposed to be picked up.
“The family’s message that it hopes people, young adults for certain, take from this senseless killing of a wonderful girl is that the ride-share community — Uber and Lyft — learn from this and take ownership of the fortune made by their customers,” Seth Josephson said.
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