“He would tell me, ‘I have this joke I wrote,’” said Miller’s adoptive sister Melody Russell as she explained how being a driver gave him an audience as a self-proclaimed comedian. Photo of Joshua Miller and adoptive sisters Melody and Shyla Russell. The ride-sharing company tells his family in that time he completed 11,000 rides. Miller had worked as an Uber driver for more than five years. His family says that’s the kind of Uber driver Miller was. Imagine an Uber driver who bursts into song at a red light, cracks a joke if you’re having a bad day, and goes out of his way to make you smile before your ride is over. His family says they don’t want their brother to be remembered as a victim of a tragic crime but as the funny, enthusiastic, lover of laughs they knew Miller to be. What seems to be a robbery-turned-murder took one of Uber’s top ranked exemplary drivers off the road.įrom the driver’s seat of his car Miller’s goal as an Uber driver was to share positivity with those he drove around North Texas. This is the city’s first case of its kind according to detectives with the Dallas Police Department. On January 8, he was brutally attacked and killed by a passenger while driving in Dallas. DALLAS - In North Texas a family is grieving after the death of 33-year-old Uber driver Joshua Miller.

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