A Kentucky woman visiting her boyfriend in Texas hired an Uber driver to take her to a location in southeast El Paso, but alleged shot him in the head, killing him, because she reportedly thought the driver was kidnapping her to Mexico when she saw signs for Juarez, Mexico on a highway, the Associated Press reports.
Apparently unaware that signs can tell you what happens across a border, Tompkinsville, Kentucky resident Phoebe Copas panicked as 52-year-old Daniel Piedra Garcia drove to Copas’s destination, the Speaking Rock Casino, about a mile from the Mexican border. When Garcia merged on to a highway with signs showing the distance to Juarez, Mexico–and apparently unaware that there were multiple exits before the Mexican border–Copas pulled a gun and shot Garcia in the head, killing him and sending the car crashing into the median. She’s being charged with murder.