{"id":1956108,"date":"2023-06-24T12:13:01","date_gmt":"2023-06-24T16:13:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/woman-charged-with-murder-after-shooting-uber-driver-she-thought-was-kidnapping-her-police\/"},"modified":"2023-06-24T12:13:42","modified_gmt":"2023-06-24T16:13:42","slug":"woman-charged-with-murder-after-shooting-uber-driver-she-thought-was-kidnapping-her-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/woman-charged-with-murder-after-shooting-uber-driver-she-thought-was-kidnapping-her-police\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman charged with murder for shooting Uber driver she mistakenly believed was kidnapping her, according to police."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwoman-charged-with-murder-after-shooting-uber-driver-she-thought-was-kidnapping-her-police%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1956108&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>A Woman Charged with Murder After Mistakenly Believing Uber Driver Was Kidnapping Her<\/h2>\n<p>A woman has been charged with murder after believing that her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/uber\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Uber<\/a> driver was kidnapping her, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>Phoebe Copas, 48, has been charged with murder after police say she shot 52-year-old Daniel Piedra Garcia after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/elaine-parker-congress-should-eat-away-at-the-edges-of-healthcare-reform-in-2023\/\" title=\"Elaine Parker: Congress Should Eat Away at the Edges of Healthcare Reform in 2023\">wrongly believing<\/a> that he was kidnapping her, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/el-paso\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">El Paso<\/a> police said.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cPhoebe Copas was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/convictions-are-down-and-more-felonies-are-charged-down-in-chesa-boudins-san-francisco\/\" title=\"Convictions Are Down, and More Felonies Are \u201cCharged Down\u201d in Chesa Boudin\u2019s San Francisco\">originally booked<\/a> for Aggravated Assault Causing Serious Bodily Injury. Daniel J. Piedra Garcia, unfortunately, succumbed to his injuries and Crimes Against Persons Detectives obtained a warrant for Copas with a charge of Murder with a bond of $1,500,000 signed by Judge Aun,\u201d El Paso police <a href=\"https:\/\/www.borderreport.com\/regions\/texas\/woman-takes-photo-of-injured-uber-driver-before-calling-911-according-to-court-documents\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> in a statement.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Investigators say that Copas shot Piedra during a trip to meet with her boyfriend at a casino. Police said that there was no evidence for the alleged kidnapping, but that Copas was frightened by signs that read \u201cJuarez, Mexico,\u201d KTSM reported.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cAt some point during the drive, Copas thought she was being taken into Mexico and shot Piedra,\u201d police <a href=\"https:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/news\/state\/texas\/article276656961.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a>. \u201cThe investigation does not support that a kidnapping took place or that Piedra was veering from Copas\u2019 destination.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Piedra, who was shot in the back of the head and wrist, was taken off life support this week after being shot on June 16. Copas is being held on a $1.5 million bond and is accused of texting her boyfriend an image of the wounded Garcia before calling the police.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn Friday June 16, 2023 my husband Daniel Piedra was working for Uber when his passenger shot him in the head. He is the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/afghanistan-one-million-children-suffer-from-malnourishment\/\" title=\"Afghanistan: One Million Children Suffer from Malnourishment\">sole provider<\/a> for our family and was unable to work for a while because he hurt his knee at his last job and had to have surgery on April 18, 2023,\u201d a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/daniel-piedra-garcia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GoFundMe<\/a> organized by Piedra\u2019s wife says, adding that the money raised will go toward hospital and funeral expenses.<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-9096\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1687620688408000&#038;usg=AOvVaw30gSt3uppzQGOkBw2Ec5p6\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Piedra\u2019s family was shocked by the news, saying that they couldn\u2019t believe that he was the victim when they heard the news of the shooting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI miss him and I wish this wouldn\u2019t have happened to him,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/uber-passenger-who-mistakenly-thought-she-was-being-kidnapped-shoots-driver-is-charged-with-murder-7552617\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> niece Didi Lopze. \u201cHe didn\u2019t deserve that, no one deserves that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Uber <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/passenger-shot-killed-uber-driver-believed-was-taking-mexico-police-sa-rcna90901\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> that it was horrified by the incident and that it would assist the investigation in any way possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A woman, Phoebe Copas, has been charged with murder by El Paso police. She allegedly shot her Uber driver, Daniel Piedra Garcia, after mistakenly believing he was kidnapping her. Copas, 48, was initially booked for Aggravated Kidnapping but now faces a murder charge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":200,"featured_media":1956109,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1956108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1956108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/200"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1956108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1956108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1956109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1956108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1956108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1956108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}