PITTSBURGH — The Muslim taxi driver who was shot in the Hazelwood section last week works for the Mars-based company Cranberry Taxi Service.

The male driver, whose name has not been released, drove a man from the Rivers Casino about 1:40 a.m. on Thanksgiving Day to Second Avenue in Hazelwood.

After dropping the man off at a residence, the driver fled in the taxi after the passenger came back out of the house with a gun and started shooting at the taxi.

The driver was struck in his back, but drove a few blocks and flagged someone down for help.

He is receiving medical treatment at UPMC Mercy. A news release from the city Department of Public Safety said he was “alert and “conscious in stable condition.”

Police are continuing to search for the shooter.

The 38-year-old driver has been working for Cranberry Taxi for more than a month.

No one from the taxi service returned a call seeking comment.

Cranberry Taxi Service, an affiliate of Pittsburgh-based Star Transportation Group, covers Butler County and northern Allegheny County.

Pittsburgh Councilman Corey O’Connor said attacks on taxi drivers are “not very common.”

“We have a lot of Uber drivers, Lyft drivers and cab drivers,” O’Connor said. “We want to make sure they’re safe and incidents like this don’t occur.”

A Muslim civil rights group has asked the Justice Department to investigate the shooting as a hate crime.

The Council on American-Islamic Relations says the shooter asked the Muslim driver about his background and if he was from Pakistan. The group says the man asked about ISIS and satirized the Prophet Muhammad.

O’Connor said investigators will be looking at potential evidence from the taxi’s built-in camera and cameras from the casino.

O’Connor would not elaborate on if the investigation is leaning toward this being a hate crime, but said it’s the city’s job to be welcoming to people of all races and ethnicities.

“When a crime like this happens, we want to first make sure we get all the correct evidence and put a time line together of when and why this happens,” he said.

Pittsburgh police from the Zone 4 station are leading the investigation.

The police department is also working with the Pittsburgh branch of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

FBI agent Gregory Heeb said the FBI is “thoroughly reviewing” the matter and gathering more information, although the bureau is not calling it a formal investigation at this time.

“We’re doing so in close coordination with the Pittsburgh Bureau of Police,” Heeb said. “We’ve been in consultation with the United States Attorney’s office on it.”

Heeb would not say whether the investigation is considering this a hate crime.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.