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In December, Mohammed al-Hijoj was driving for Uber to support his family, prosecutors and relatives say, when a passenger he picked up fatally shot him after he reached the drop-off point in the North Austin neighborhood. A judge on Tuesday ordered an 18-year-old man detained while awaiting trial on murder charges just one day before a coalition of Uber and Lyft drivers go on a one-day strike .