The woman is being held on $1.5 million bond.
A woman in the United States who fatally shot her Uber driver after mistakenly believing she was being kidnapped is facing a murder charge. According to new york postThe incident happened in Texas on Friday, June 16. The woman, identified as 48-year-old Phoebe Kopas, shot her driver, Daniel Piedra Garcia, after she mistakenly thought he was kidnapping her and taking her to Mexico.
Ms Kopas has been charged with aggravated assault causing serious bodily injury. He is being held on $1.5 million bond, El Paso police said in a statement. statement, On the other hand, the family of the driver said that he was taken off the life support system on Wednesday.
According to ShopMs. Kopas, who is from Kentucky, was visiting her boyfriend in Texas. She called an Uber after getting off work to meet her boyfriend at a local casino. However, the 48-year-old woman reportedly became concerned when she saw highway signs for “Juarez, Mexico”.
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Ms Kopas claims this led her to believe she was being abducted and taken to Mexico. He pulled a revolver from his bag and shot the 52-year-old driver in the back of the head and wrist, causing the car to crash. Before calling the police, Ms Kopas also took a photo of the incident and sent it to her boyfriend, People informed of.
According to the outlet, police said, “The investigation does not support that a kidnapping took place or that Piedra was straying from Copas’ destination.” “His passenger shot her in the head because she believed he was kidnapping her and taking her to Juarez, which was not the case,” the driver’s wife said in a separate statement. post onlineadding, “Daniel was simply following the route of the Uber app”.
Speaking to a local media outlet, Uber said the company was “horrified” by the rider’s actions. “Violence is not tolerated on the Uber platform, and we banned the rider as soon as we became aware of the incident,” a company spokesperson said.