Uber driver calls 911 while driving robbery suspects Richard Anthony, Thomas Shatner, and Reggie Green

An Uber driver who helped police catch three gunmen accused of robbing and shooting a man visiting the city says he immediately knew something was wrong.

Shawn McCastle said he picked up the three men on Nov. 24 who tued out to be three suspects: Richard Anthony, Thomas Shatner and Reggie Green.

McCastle said the men weren't sure about where they were going. He drove them 30 minutes away to a Days Inn in Stone Mountain, but once they got there and saw police in the parking lot, the men got nervous and asked McCastle to go to another city instead.

”’Hey, we want to keep you for four or five hours,’ McCastle said the men told him. ”I'm saying, ‘Not me, you're not.’ I said, ‘I've never had passengers in my Uber ride that want to travel aimlessly around the town.’ I said, ‘That's just not how Uber works.’

McCastle called 911 and tried to tell the operator what was happening without the suspects realizing.

Uber driver Shawn McCastle spoke to a local reporter about the frightening ordeal

He pretended to be talking to a friend on the phone and kept trying to say where he was.

He spent 20 minutes on the phone with the operator before police were able to find them.

When he told the operator he was pulling onto Newton Crest Circle, police showed up about 30 seconds later.

”I'm still having flashbacks about all the guns being drawn, McCastle said.

He said two of the suspects jumped out of the car and ran.

”After they were in the woods, they caught them. They brought one of them back and had me identify him while he was in the back of the car, McCastle said.

Hours later, a police K-9 found the last suspect in the woods.

McCastle said he’s since spoken with Uber about adding some sort of panic button to the Uber app.