'This can't go without punishment': A 75-year-old Uber driver assaulted, carjacked

BOSTON — Boston police are looking for the person who carjacked and brutally beat an elderly Uber driver, then left him on the side of the road.

Henry Miller, 75, is already in hospice care for lung disease, but now he’s in the intensive care unit.

“He was beat to death and revived,” his daughter Emily Maynard told Boston 25 News. “This can't go without punishment.”

A call for justice for Henry Miller, attacked by his own customer -- after he became an Uber driver simply to meet people.

“[He’s a] retired union worker, Army vet, just wanted to drive around the city, tell people about it, and likes people,” Maynard said.

But a call for a pickup in Dorchester near midnight on Tuesday was almost his last.

“Detectives tell me a pizza guy was closing up his shop and saw my dad laying on the ground and he said, I can't breathe, there goes my car,” Maynard explained.

Henry's daughter Emily says as he pulled up near Codman Square, someone pulled Henry out, viciously beat him, and then jumped in the car and took off.

The thought of her frail father on the ground, gasping for breath is painful.

“You can't think about that. It's infuriating, it's so depressing,” she said.

Detectives recovered the ransacked car a few blocks away and are searching for a suspect.

With a gash in his head and multiple injuries, Emily says her father is confused, so she's put up signs in his hospital room to explain the tragedy that put him there.

But she also has questions of her own.

“I want answers, I want to be able to tell him, we found this person, this is who did it and you'll have your day in court,” she said.

Anyone with information should call police.

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For anyone looking to donate to support the man, donations are being accepted on GoFundMe here.

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