Uber driver hospitalized after attack on Christmas Eve

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Instead, they spent the holiday at Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center after Duane Johnson, a husband and father of three, was shot in the chest in a drive-by shooting on the morning of Christmas Eve, the family said.Duane Johnson, 57, who works as an Uber driver, was transporting a group of four passengers from Spokane Valley to Spokane before 4 a.m. on Christmas Eve when a white SUV came up alongside the driver side of his Volkswagen Jetta on Interstate 90 near the Thor-Freya exit.I jumped out – it was chaos – that’s when it hit me when I started moving that I had been shot.”A bullet fractured his ribs, before piercing and collapsing one of his lungs and lodging itself near his spine.On a GoFundMe page, her brother Steve Smith described Duane Johnson as, generous, compassionate, whose “love for his family and his faith is uncompromising and inspiring.”The GoFundMe page was about halfway to its $10,000 goal on Sunday morning.Give directly to The Spokesman-Review's Northwest Passages community forums series -- which helps to offset the costs of several reporter and editor positions at the newspaper -- by using the easy options below."

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