The Broadway Cab driver who called 911 last Thursday night gave an account of how his passengers ended up on the side of Interstate 84 that conflicted with the one by the same-sex couple who complained about him.

[Editor's Note: This post has been updated with a comment from the women's attorney, at end.]



The driver called 911 at 11:53 p.m. Thursday. At first, he said of his customers, "They don't want to pay."



The dispatcher asked where the driver was, and he replied that he was on I-84 eastbound, almost to I-205.



"These people are real, real drunk and so mean. I'm tired of it, " the driver told an emergency dispatcher. "They want to jump out of the car."



He told the dispatcher that his customers kept telling him to stop.





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Dispatch asked if he could pull over.

"Right now they told me keep going, keep going," he replied.

The dispatcher advised, "You've got to do what's best for you."

The driver said he planned to be at Northeast Sandy Boulevard and Prescott Street within five minutes. "I might need a cab up there, please," he said.

Moments later, the driver is heard yelling, "These people they opened the door...They jumped out on the freeway!...They're going to kill themselves here."

The couple, Shanako Devoll and Kate Neal, said they had called Broadway Cab to pick them up downtown that night and take them to their Northeast Portland home.

that the driver was yelling homophobic remarks at them, and left them stranded on the side of the freeway.

Shanako Devoll, on left, with her partner, Kate Neal.

According to Devoll and Neal, they asked the driver to leave them in a safer area, off an exit ramp, but he refused.

On the emergency call, the driver alerted dispatch that another cab pulled up along the side of the freeway after his customers had left his cab. The cab driver told the dispatcher he was going to warn the other driver not to accept the passengers.

"Don't take them, they don't pay," the first driver can be heard saying, before he hung up with 911.

The 911 call was obtained by The Oregonian through a public records request. According to dispatch notes, the driver's name was Ahmed Egal, but dispatch was unsure of the spelling.

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Devoll and Neal could not be reached for comment Tuesday night.

Their attorney, Nicholas Yanchar, said in an email Wednesday:

"My clients disclosed from the very beginning that the driver called the police, which is how my clients ended up getting home that night. He was responding to the call made by the driver and that is nothing new."

--Maxine Bernstein