What Did the Lyft Booking Show Before Andre Hunter’s Life Sentence?

The booking and the arrest

The district attorney’s office did not name the app. It said the survivor was working for a rideshare company, picked Hunter up, and started toward a Del City address he gave. KOCO and KFOR identified the trip as a Lyft ride.

KFOR reported that the driver said passengers using someone else’s profile was common at the time. KOCO quoted Maj. Brad Cowden of the Del City Police Department on the open question: police had the phones and were still trying to learn who the profile belonged to, and whether that person had any role.

Lyft told KOCO: “The behavior described is reprehensible and has no place in the Lyft community or society. We have been in contact with the driver offering support, permanently banned the rider from the Lyft platform, and contacted law enforcement to assist with any investigation.” That statement is Lyft’s account of a ban and a call to police. It is not a court finding about how the profile was created.

The district attorney’s office said Hunter was arrested on April 19, 2024, the day after Del City police were called to OU Health. The survivor said he threatened to kill her more than once, directed her to a Del City park instead of the address on the trip, and raped her there. He then made her ride as a passenger, threatened her again, left her at a Northeast Oklahoma City church, and drove off in her vehicle with her phone.

KOCO reported that her family tracked the phone about 40 miles away in Langston. Cowden said an officer met the suspect as he got out of her vehicle with her phone. The district attorney’s office said he was wearing the same clothing the survivor had described.

The life sentence

The case pleaded out ahead of the August 25, 2025 trial date. In April 2025, Hunter was expected to enter a blind plea and then, in the final hours, asked for a jury trial, KFOR reported. District Attorney Vicki Behenna called that change frustrating for the office and for the victim. The August 18 plea is the disposition the office announced.

In her victim impact statement, the woman said: “For 16 months now I have been a prisoner in my own life, bound by chains of anxiety and fear and a deep unshakeable sense of vulnerability but today I am taking back my life.”

The life term does not stand alone. The district attorney’s office said that in February 2024, before this assault, a court granted Hunter bond over the state’s objection in CF-2024-0265, a charge of possessing a firearm while on probation. In May 2024 the court gave him 10 years in that case, which the office called the maximum. The court also gave him the maximum in CF-2023-0594, possession of a firearm after a juvenile adjudication and trafficking in illegal drugs. Those two sentences run one after the other, for 27 years. The life sentence runs after those 27 years.

The office’s release is the record of the plea, the case numbers, and the consecutive time. It does not describe a Lyft safety report, a background-check result, or any other platform file beyond the ride the survivor described.

Sources

• Oklahoma County District Attorney’s Office, “Justice for Rideshare Driver Violently Raped in Del City,” August 18, 2025
• KOCO, “Passenger behind bars after allegedly raping Lyft driver in Del City, stealing her car,” April 22, 2024
• KFOR, “Man arrested after allegedly sexually assaulting Lyft driver in Del City,” April 22, 2024
• KFOR, “Man accused of raping Lyft driver in Del City will go to jury trial,” April 2, 2025
• The Oklahoman, Nolan Clay, on the earlier bond, May 6, 2024

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