A US woman has
been charged with murder after shooting an Uber driver she thought was
kidnapping her, police say.
According to
police in the border city of El Paso, Texas, Phoebe Copas believed she was
being taken into Mexico.
She then shot
driver Daniel Piedra Garcia, the authorities said in a statement.
The 52-year-old
died in hospital after several days on life support.
As she was in
the car, Copas saw traffic signs that read Juarez, Mexico, according to police
documents.
The two cities
lie side-by-side on either side of the US-Mexico border.
Police
documents further explain that after thinking she was being kidnapped,
Copas pulled a gun from her handbag and shot the driver in the head. The car
then hit barriers before coming to a stop.
Copas - who is
from Kentucky but was visiting her boyfriend - is alleged to have then called
the emergency number 911, took a photo of the driver and texted it to her
boyfriend.
"The
investigation does not support that a kidnapping took place or that Piedra was
veering from Copas' destination," El Paso police statement said.
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