(CNN) An Uber driver was arrested after he fired shots at passengers following an altercation, New Orleans police said Monday.

Ahmad Ahmad, the 53-year-old driver, picked up two passengers at a bar in downtown New Orleans Sunday and was asked to drive to Kenner, a nearby city in Jefferson Parish.

Ahmad allegedly took his passengers across the Mississippi River and they told him he was driving in the wrong direction, police said in a statement.

That's when an argument began.

He stopped the car, police said, and as the argument continued, one of the passengers ordered another Uber driver.

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