Dear MEL Topic Readers,
Passenger shot and killed Uber driver she believed was taking her to Mexico, police say
On June 16, a 52-year-old Kentucky woman fired multiple shots at her Uber driver’s head in El Paso, Texas. She was on her way to her boyfriend but thought she was being driven to a border town in Mexico. The driver’s life support was disconnected a few days after the incident as doctors expressed no chance of survival. The woman hadn’t called the police for support before she shot the driver’s head from the back seat. This incident suggests that she had carried a loaded handgun with her all the way from Kentucky unless she purchased it in El Paso. She most likely flew to El Paso as the distance between Kentucky and El Paso is over 2,400 kilometers. She might have put her gun in the checked-in baggage and extracted it when she picked up the baggage at El Paso airport. She must have thought the act was self-defense. But she could have called for help with her phone before firing a gun. Shoot first before talking or warning. She wasn’t a police officer on duty.
Read the article and think about how easily guns are fired in the US.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/passenger-shot-killed-uber-driver-believed-was-taking-mexico-police-sa-rcna90901
Passenger shot and killed Uber driver she believed was taking her to Mexico, police say
On June 16, a 52-year-old Kentucky woman fired multiple shots at her Uber driver’s head in El Paso, Texas. She was on her way to her boyfriend but thought she was being driven to a border town in Mexico. The driver’s life support was disconnected a few days after the incident as doctors expressed no chance of survival. The woman hadn’t called the police for support before she shot the driver’s head from the back seat. This incident suggests that she had carried a loaded handgun with her all the way from Kentucky unless she purchased it in El Paso. She most likely flew to El Paso as the distance between Kentucky and El Paso is over 2,400 kilometers. She might have put her gun in the checked-in baggage and extracted it when she picked up the baggage at El Paso airport. She must have thought the act was self-defense. But she could have called for help with her phone before firing a gun. Shoot first before talking or warning. She wasn’t a police officer on duty.
Read the article and think about how easily guns are fired in the US.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/passenger-shot-killed-uber-driver-believed-was-taking-mexico-police-sa-rcna90901
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