Posted on 06/27/2023 9:33:44 AM PDT by servo1969
A Kentucky woman was charged with murder for fatally shooting her Uber driver in the head.
Phoebe Copas, 48, fatally shot her Uber driver, Daniel Piedra, 52, a couple of weeks ago after she believed he kidnapped her and was taking her to Mexico against her will.
Copas was in El Paso visiting her boyfriend and on her way to meet up with him at a Casino according to the complaint affidavit obtained by KTSM.
Copas told police she saw traffic signs that said “Juarez Mexico” and believed her Uber driver was trying to kidnap her.
According to court documents, Copas took a handgun from her purse and shot Piedra in the head.
The car crashed into a freeway barrier.
Police said there was no evidence to back up kidnapping claims or that the Uber driver veered off course.
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I hope she gets the death penalty, but I doubt that will happen.
She has a pretty inflated opinion of herself to think somebody would pay any type of ransom for that ugly mug.
“Kentucky woman
She shines with her own kind of light
She’d look at you once
And a day that’s all wrong looks all right” -— Neil Diamond
Or whatever stupid streaming service that she was "binge watching". Makes you stupid and paranoid which is a bad combination.
Stupid woman. She’s living proof that some people should NOT own guns.
Lay off that whiskey and let that cocaine be
https://youtu.be/SyGrE_TbTxo
Thinking you are being kidnapped is a mistake. But if you have a firearm, you can rectify that by just saying “I have a firearm, stop the vehicle and let me out please.”
I think about 99.99% of people, even those with criminal intent, would probably comply.
Exceedingly strange story.
And I wonder how the liberals will spin this as an example of why people should not have guns. After all, the picture posted seems to show a Phoebe Copas who would be qualified (in the mind of FJB) for nomination to the Supreme Court.
Just ask to be let out. If they don’t make a motion to pull over and end the ride within a reasonable period of time, then you brandish the weapon and call the police.
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I DID 12 years ago.
And I sold (or gave away) all of my television sets, except
for the one that has a VGA jack on the back that I still,
even now, use as a computer monitor.
I do not believe this story. SHe executed the man in cold blood while he was driving the car at speed.
So there has to be something else, a drug deal gone bad? She, a hooker who was not paid as promised.?
Exactly, there is a lot of context missing here.
Ridiculous- even if true, (which it was not) she could have gotten out at the border.
She’s in less trouble here for murder than she would be there for just having a gun.
You are assuming she was carrying the gun legally.
Coming back from Jordan into Jerusalem in 2000, I thought our Palestinian driver was taking us to get robbed and murdered because he was going a totally different way than when he picked us up 2 days before.........he was taking us to see where Pope John Paul had just been!!!
Maybe she’s Schitzo.
Whoa! Phoebe Wasserman-Shultz.
She’s living proof that some people should NOT BE BORN.
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