Stranger danger has metastasised into something darker
Why did Phoebe Copas shoot her Uber driver? The 48-year-old got into a car driven by Daniel Piedra Garcia on June 16 thinking she was heading to El Paso in Texas. But when she saw a sign reading “Juárez, Mexico” — which lies on the other side of the border — she pulled a handgun from her bag and shot Piedra in the head. He died several days later. Copas later told the police she panicked when she thought she was being abducted.
