A 24-year-old man was arrested Thursday night after police say he assaulted an Uber driver and stole her car.

Police responded to the intersection of Massachusetts and Columbus avenues at around 6:30 p.m. Thursday for a report of a carjacking. There, officers encountered a “highly distressed” Uber driver, Boston Police said in a statement

A witness told police they saw the Uber driver struggling with a person in the back seat of the vehicle. The driver managed to escape the vehicle and screamed for help as the suspect moved from the back seat to the driver’s seat and fled the scene, the witness told police, according to the statement.

The Uber driver told police she picked up the suspect in Cambridge. Then, at the intersection of Massachusetts and Columbus avenues, she felt a cord or wi

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