Three weeks into his new job as an Uber driver in El Paso, Daniel Piedra was shot in the head multiple times after police said his passenger, who had seen a traffic sign that said “Juarez, Mexico,” wrongly believed she was being kidnapped.
Piedra, 52, had been on life support at a Texas hospital since the June 16 shooting. But when doctors said he would have to remain on a ventilator forever, Piedra’s loved ones, who had been praying for a miracle, decided to let him go.“My aunt didn’t want to see him suffer,” Didi Lopez, Piedra’s niece, told The Washington Post. “But, honestly, we don’t think that we made the decision to disconnect him. That decision was made for him the second that those bullets went into his head.
Copas then took a “silver and brown handgun” from her purse and repeatedly shot the driver, police said. The vehicle hit barriers before coming to a stop on the highway.Copas did not try to call police before opening fire and did not immediately call them after, authorities say. Court documents allege that she took photos of Piedras after the shooting and texted them to her boyfriend, before calling 911.
When news of a driver being shot began spreading in El Paso, Lopez said, “it never crossed our mind that it was going to be him.” But when Piedra didn’t come home after hours of unread texts and missed phone calls, his loved ones knew something was wrong, she said.
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