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What did Phoebe Copas do? Charges explored as fatally injured El Paso Uber driver taken off life support

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James Bradley

Published Feb 08, 2026

52 year-old Daniel Piedra Garcia was shot in the head last Friday (June 16) by a lady distinguished as Phoebe Copas. Garcia, who was put in a coma following the shooting, battled for his life up to this point. Garcia’s family chose to eliminate him from life support on Wednesday, June 21, 2023, and the Uber driver died.

Phoebe Copas, 48, guaranteed that she shot the driver in the wake of accepting that she was being seized. Copas has to deal with a few penalties, including crime exasperated attack causing serious real injury. Nonetheless, the charges have been moved up to kill following the casualty’s demise.

Piedra Garcia’s niece Didi Lopez made sense of how stunning the episode was, and that the family is as yet not ready to handle the misfortune. The casualty was depicted as a “cherishing man” who had no offspring of his own except for some godchildren.

The appalling episode occurred on Friday, June 16, 2023, when Copas purportedly shot Garcia in the head on US 54 close to Circle 375. Copas further referenced that she assumed she was getting seized after she saw a leave sign for Juarez, Mexico. As per the casualty’s niece Didi Lopez, generalizations about the line potentially prompted Garcia’s passing.

“It was simply surprising, difficult to accept, a great deal of us had seen the news, however we never at any point envisioned. It never occurred to us that being him was going. He was truly eager to be driving for Uber. He was at that point accommodating his family; not just that, he was meeting such countless individuals.”

Lopez moreover talked about Phoebe Copas’ activities and said that she ought to have called the specialists assuming she felt undermined, rather than pulling the trigger. She additionally made sense of how nervous system specialists affirmed that they could not do anything something else for the person in question. Consequently, on Wednesday, the family chose to take Garcia off life support.

NEW DETAILS: @KTSMtv obtained the arrest documents for the women accused of shooting her Uber driver last week. Documents state Phoebe Copas did not call for police or emergency services to disclose her reportedly being in danger before allegedly shooting Daniel Piedra Garcia.

— Stephanie A. Shields (@StephanieKTSM) June 20, 2023


Specialists have captured Phoebe Copas, and she is presently being hung on an obligation of $1 million. Uber has apparently connected with the casualty’s family and affirmed that they would accommodate anything the family required. On June 16, Phoebe was purportedly going to meet her beau at Speaking Stone Gambling club, when the horrendous occurrence occurred.

A GoFundMe page was made to meet the casualty’s clinical costs, as well as burial service costs. Piedra Garcia has been depicted as the “sole supplier” of his loved ones. The pledge drive post additionally read: It has at present gotten in excess of 1,400 gifts and has raised more than $44,000. In the wake of shooting the person in question, Phoebe Copas allegedly sent the image of the episode to her accomplice and afterward dialed 911.