She believes she is kidnapped and kills her Uber driver
In El Paso, in southern Texas, the woman pulled a gun from her bag and shot the driver in the head. She thought he was going to take her by force to Mexico.
PostedJune 26, 2023, 4:00 PM
When police arrived at the scene, the woman dropped “everything she was holding on the ground”, including “a brown and silver handgun”.
AFP
To visit her boyfriend in El Paso, Texas, on the border with Mexico, Phoebe C. (48) ordered an Uber driver. And while the race was going normally on Friday June 16, she panicked, pulled a gun from her bag and shot the driver, Daniel Piedra Garcia, 52, in the head.
According to El Paso police, she “saw road signs that said ‘Ciudad Juárez, Mexico’ and thought she was being taken there.” The two cities are located on either side of the border. The car then “hit barriers before coming to a stop”, in an area that “was not near a bridge, entry point or other area providing immediate access to Mexico “, according to the minutes of the investigation, quoted by the” El Paso Times “.
The daily adds that “the route taken is a normal route to get to the requested destination”. “The investigation does not confirm that a kidnapping took place or that the driver was moving away from the destination of his passenger”, specifies the police of El Paso.
She sent her boyfriend a picture of the dead driver
Phoebe C., who is from Kentucky, then “took a picture of the driver and texted it to her boyfriend,” before calling “the 911 emergency number.” Arrived on the spot around 2:20 p.m., the agents saw the forties get out of the car, helped by her boyfriend. She then dropped “everything she was holding in her hands to the ground”, including “a brown and silver handgun”.
“The investigation does not confirm that a kidnapping took place or that the driver was moving away from the destination of his passenger.”
The El Paso Police
Officers found the driver slumped in his seat. His family was worried not to see him return. With no response to her messages, she began calling hospitals. “Someone then mentioned an article about an Uber driver who had been shot,” says Daniel’s niece, Didi Lopez. “We dialed the non-emergency number for the police, and that’s when we were told it was him.”
It had only been three weeks since Daniel Piedra Garcia started working as an Uber driver. He died in the city hospital a few days after the tragedy. Phoebe C. was charged with murder.
2023-06-26 14:00:28
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